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THE EXPERIENCE:

A Portland ENCORE screening of the 1926 Japanese Avant-Garde Experimental Film A PAGE OF MADNESS (KURRUTTA ICHIPEIGI) Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa featuring a special live soundtrack performed by QUASI and SOFT RUMBLE (Kathy Foster & Rachel Blumberg).

ON SCREEN: A Page of Madness

1926. Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Runtime: 73 minutes. 

Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation. The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan and revolves around a man who takes a janitorial job at the institution after his wife is taken in as a patient there. Eventually, the janitor himself begins to slip into a fantasy world in his own mind, while the pain and suffering continue around him. Using superimpositions, rapid and insistent visual patterns, fantasy sequences, and the visual flamboyance of actors impersonating mad people, A Page of Madness builds an atmosphere of astonishing intensity.

ON STAGE: 

QUASI (Performers) – Quasi was formed in 1993 by Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes, in Portland Oregon.  Since then, the band has toured the world (more or less) however many times, and released a number of well-regarded albums on several of the most respected American indie labels, including Up, Touch and Go, Kill Rock Stars, and Sub Pop, and internationally with longtime comrades Domino Records. Concurrently, JW was a longtime member of Sleater-Kinney, as well as recording and/or touring with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Bright Eyes, the Shins, Elliott Smith, the Go-Betweens, and others, and is currently also a member of Portland band Slang. SC has worked with Elliott Smith, Built to Spill, Jandek, the Go-Betweens, and others, and has toured and recorded as a solo artist.  He is also currently a member of Jon Spencer and the HITmakers. Trivia!: Both Janet and Sam are two-time members of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame – JW for Quasi and Sleater-Kinney, and SC for Quasi and Heatmiser.

Soft Rumble (Performers) – An exciting collaboration between two of Portland’s most prolific musicians: Kathy Foster of Roseblood, Thermals, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Wooly Mountain, Hurry Up and Slang. And Rachel Blumberg of Field Drums, Arch Cape, M. Ward, The Decemberists and Michael Hurley.