A book-length interview and career retrospective of seminal Japanese filmmaker and political militant Masao Adachi. Cinema + Revolution: The Life and Work of Masao Adachi is the first-ever full-length interview and career retrospective of legendary filmmaker and militant Masao Adachi. These interviews, conducted and edited by Go Hirasawa and Ethan Spigland, offer readers unprecedented access to Adachi's reflections on a life lived at the intersection of cinema and radical politics. Rising to prominence in 1960s Japan as an experimental filmmaker and theorist, Adachi helped define the avant-garde cinema of the era with formally daring works like
A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969) and
Gushing Prayer (1970). In the early 1970s, he left Japan to join the armed struggle in the Middle East, spending nearly three decades in Lebanon with the Japanese Red Army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine before his arrest, extradition, and imprisonment in 2000
Cinema + Revolution is a documentary experiment in dialogue form, weaving Adachi's own voice together with critical analysis, archival materials, and newly translated texts from his theoretical writings. From his formative years in the Japanese New Wave to his collaborations with Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima, from exile and incarceration to his recent films on contemporary political violence, Adachi recounts a trajectory that illuminates the possibilities and costs of revolutionary commitment. Essential reading for anyone interested in radical history, film studies, or the enduring question of what it means to align one's art with one's politics.
Go Hirasawa is a film programmer and curator. He has organized special screenings and exhibitions focusing on Japanese cinema and art of the 1960s and 1970s at various art theaters, cinematheques, and film festivals, as well as art museums in Japan and abroad. In 2021, he received a PhD from the Graduate School of Humanities at Leiden University and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. His most recent publication,
Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s (coedited by Ann Adachi-Tasch and Julian Ross), came out in 2020. He also organized the film screening event
Japanese Cinema Expanded at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021.
Ethan Spigland is a professor in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute. He received an MFA from the Graduate Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and a maitrîse in Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII under the supervision of Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard. Ethan is also an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, visual artist, critic, and curator. His project,
Elevator Moods, was featured in the Sundance Film Festival and South By Southwest, and won a Webby Award in the Broadband Category. His short film, The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, won the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards, and was shortlisted for an Oscar.
平澤剛（Go Hirasawa）是一位電影策展人和策劃人。他在日本及國外的各大藝術劇院、電影資料館和電影節，以及藝術博物館，組織了專注於1960年代和1970年代日本電影與藝術的特別放映和展覽。2021年，他獲得萊頓大學（Leiden University）和索邦新大學（Université Sorbonne Nouvelle）人文學研究所的博士學位。他最近的出版物《擴展電影與跨媒介：1960年代的批評文本》（與Ann Adachi-Tasch和Julian Ross共同編輯）於2020年出版。他還在2021年於紐約現代藝術博物館（Museum of Modern Art）組織了電影放映活動《擴展的日本電影》（Japanese Cinema Expanded）。
伊桑·斯皮格蘭（Ethan Spigland）是普拉特學院（Pratt Institute）人文與媒體研究系的教授。他在紐約大學（New York University）提許藝術學院（Tisch School of the Arts）的研究生電影課程獲得碩士學位，並在巴黎第八大學（University of Paris VIII）獲得哲學碩士學位，指導教授為吉爾·德勒茲（Gilles Deleuze）和讓-弗朗索瓦·利奧塔（Jean-François Lyotard）。伊桑也是一位獲獎的編劇、電影製作人、視覺藝術家、評論家和策展人。他的項目《電梯情緒》（Elevator Moods）曾在聖丹斯電影節（Sundance Film Festival）和西南偏南（South By Southwest）展出，並在寬頻類別中獲得Webby獎。他的短片《巴爾塔薩·希波利特的奇怪案例》（The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite）在學生奧斯卡獎中獲得金獎，並入圍奧斯卡獎。
