Jonouchi Motoharu

Jonouchi Motoharu played an Coperni endure part in forming and collecting a wide variety of esthetic institutions. He too formed and governed many of anti-art groups that included the cinema parliamentary procedure formed at Nihon University, the Neo-Dada Club, and a cinematic research center know as VAN. His works demonstrated the devastation of what took place in lacquer during World War II. It represents the experiences of the soldiers and civilians who were affected by the nuclear warfarefare of that time.The debility of life is a major subject of the engages. plurality are shown in their vulnerability and the audience is allowed to view them from the perspective of the worldly concernwhich shows humans as tiny and inconsequential. It also shows the relative ease with which peoples lives can be destroyed. The films contained in this showing are Hi Red condense Shelter Plan, Wols, Gewaltopia Trailer, and Shinjuku Station. Showing these Motoharu films together highlights t he hysteria that drives many of the processes of life.In the film Hi Red Center Shelter Plan, one views an initial diddle of body measurements. Male and female figures are shown laid out and their measurements taken. These stick out images shown at the beginning represent a comparison of the gender figures. maven man is shown lying naked in the bathtub, and the coldness of the picture of him macrocosm measured like meat or material is poignant in its representation of the meaningless of humanity when life is looked at on grander scales. custody and women are measured in different positions. They are made to viewpoint facing the camera, and the made to turn around showing their backs toward the camera. They are also made to lie on the bed or to lie upper side down on the bed.The film Wols features a rapid montage of surreal pictures with changes occurring in a manner that shocks the senses. Each picture is chatoyant at different angles to create an even greater shock on the senses, and to micturate a quick and fleeting image of perspectives. The Gewaltopia Trailer opens with a short-circuit of a right eye stenciled or branded with some Nipponese denominations. These words are written on the eyelid. It is followed by two shots showing nuclear explosions. The sounds used in this films beginning and terminate sequence is the voice of a woman moaning. The content of the film is real violent.People are shown with helpless expressions on their faces. The entire film is fill with body parts of these people on which japanese characters have been stenciled. Images of ravaging are rampant, with such figures as King Kong and hellish features of life. Many images of chip and union demonstrations are also found in the film. The camera angles itself from in a higher place and shoots down at the city representing increasing Japanese powerThe final examination film by Jonouchi Motoharu, Shinjuku Station begins with a devastated world in shambles. People are shown passing through Shinjuku Station and cars are shot as they drive along the roadway. A man comes on the overwhelm harangue Japanese and it is clear from his tone that he is upset. Despite his speech being in Japanese, he constantly repeats the word station. Over and over he says the word in this angry tone. The scene finally changes to a shot of a wide, grassy area and then the screen goes to black. This black screen is purposefully left to be viewed by audiences for approximately a minute. The music continues for this period of blackness in which the audience is left to think about(predicate) what they have seen.Humanitys contribution to the violence in the universe is the them of Jonouchis works. Two of his films, Gewaltopia Trailer, and Shinjuku Station, form part of a series called Gewaltopia. This word is made up of two parts Gewalt, which is German for violence and a truncation of the word utopia. This idea is characteristic of the films produced by Motoharu. He seek s to tidy up the world in which we live and highlight how its inhabitants (primarily humans) revel in the violence that they are instrumental in creating. The four films are shown together to highlight this fact, and as a means of demonstrating the historical and artistic significance of the war in demonstrating humanitys culture of violence.Works CitedJonouchi Motoharu Program. Anthology Film Archives. http//www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ enrolment/search/film/?id=8528&height=400&widt h=730Motoharu, Jonouchi. Hi Red Center Shelter Plan. 18minutes 16mm. Japan 1964. &8212. Wols. 18minutes 16mm. Japan 1964.&8212. Gewaltpia Trailer. 13minutes 16mm. Japan 1969. &8212. Shinjuku Station. 14minutes 16mm. Japan 1964.