Films from the Far East are a window for us to become acquainted with and deepen oriental culture and folklore. By uncovering layers and visual elements in anime, we gain more insight into important backgrounds that are often hidden from us in the West. Anime in all its manifestations offers such a window, which becomes larger and richer when you bring the cultural-historical backgrounds, but also mythological and folkloric references to the surface. In this lecture, cultural historian and film teacher Constant Hoogenbosch brings a series of these elements to the surface and shows that there is often much more to see than we in the West realize. Films that he will discuss in the lecture include Ghost in the Shell2: Innocence, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, The Cat Returns, Gantz, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Wolf Children.
The lecture lasts 2 hours
Biotext
Drs. Constant Hoogenbosch (Nijmegen, 1967) studied Cultural and Mental History at Radboud University Nijmegen with minors in Art History, Philosophy, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. All this with a focus on film and media. After years of working in the film, television and radio world, media company Movie Machine was founded in 2000. Hoogenbosch works throughout the Netherlands (and internationally) with and for art cinemas, cultural centres, companies and educational institutions. He lectures on various topics from the film and media world and works as a teacher of Film History, Film Analysis and Media Theory, teacher of Journalism and teacher of photography theory at the Rijn IJssel College in Arnhem. He is also affiliated with Breda University (BUAS) and affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Film Education (Eye) and Filmhub Oost. As a permanent film editor, Hoogenbosch can be heard weekly on Radio Gelderland and collaborates with various film festivals at home and abroad. In addition to educational work, Hoogenbosch works on various film projects, crossovers between film and other art disciplines and is regularly a guest programmer and advisor for art cinemas. Hoogenbosch is also one of the founders of the international short film festival Go Short in Nijmegen and organized the comics and comics festival De Klare Lijn.
