Plastic Paper: KEIICHI TANAAMI RETROSPECTIVE
May 18, 2011 
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PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM presents
KEIICHI TANAAMI film retrospective
Japan 1975-2009 | Presented in Association with Asian Heritage Month and Angura! Friday May 6th, 2011 – 9:30pm Park Theatre Admission $7
Keiichi Tanaami, born in 1936 in Tokyo, is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as multi-genre artist since the 60s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist cialis levitra viagra compare and fine artist. Psychedelic, avant-garde, alluring and outrageous elements permeate Tanaami’s pieces, many of which have been the source of acclaim in films, art books, album covers and posters. In 1968 he traveled to the USA to work at Warhol’s Factory. Later he moved to San Francisco, where he got involved with the psychedelic movement, and in 1975 became the first Art Director of the Japanese Playboy magazine. His work has been compared to that of Tadanori Yokoo and Peter Max.
This program contains a selection of Tanaami’s film work from 1975-2009, a breathtaking smorgasbboard of psychedelic Japanese animation sure to whet your appetite for more – and for those who want more, we will have on hand a few imported DVD+booklet sets from Carte Blanche in France, graciously sent to us by the folks cialis usa at Angura! in Toronto, which contains all 14 of Tanaami’s short films.
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books best discount cialis including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), discount viagra cialis levitra online and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
