Reading the Cinema | Tokyo Story and Ozu's Cinema World

Reading the Cinema | Tokyo Story and Ozu’s Cinema World

Wen Chi Ölçel

09.12.2022, Friday 19:00

Reading the Cinema will take place at Ka x Assembly.

Participation is limited to 50 people. You can use the link on this page for free registration.

This event is organized in collabration with Ankara Expat community.

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Ozu is cited as one of the most essential Japanese auteur filmmakers alongside Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa. Therefore, it is unthinkable to talk about cinema in Japan without talking about Yasujiro Ozu's impact on Japanese and world cinema. Wen Chi Ölçel's reading will start with Ozu's "Tokyo Story,"; a film that has been voted among the top five greatest films of all time for several decades till today. A film that beautifully depicts the transformation of life in Japan and a perfect example of Ozu's minimalist filmmaking. Ozu's artistic style, which takes its roots from Zen's tranquility ( although Ozu strongly denied it.) and simplicity, constitutes the foundations of minimalist cinema. Ölçel will guide us through Ozu and his team's efforts to filmmaking and explain how they use the camera lens to form Ozu's now historic, unique visual language.

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Wen Chi ÖLÇEL (蔡文琪)

She teaches Asian contemporary literature and cinema at Asian Studies Master Program department in METU where she has been a teaching staff since 2015. She is the author and photographer of GO TURKEY which was published in Chinese in Taiwan. She is also a videographer and photographer for Shutterstock, Stock Adobe and Alamy.