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Japan boasts the largest manga (comics) and anime (animation) industries in the world. The culture which has developed from this peculiar post-atomic fusion of eastern calligraphic sensibility and western narrative iconography is an active and vital demonstration of a non-Eurocentric postmodernism. Instrumental figure in the originating history of both art forms and media is Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989).

Focus on Tezuka is a season of animation shorts, features and TV series profiling the Postwar Japanese anime of Japan's most historically important anime creator. Expanded from the 1995 curated retrospective on Tezuka for the Melbourne International Film Festival (Tezuka: Glimpses of a Fantastic Imagination), this season has developed from ongoing discussions with Tezuka Productions for presentation and management through the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Past dates and venues for the anime programme Focus on TEZUKA:

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Melbourne - December 7th to 17th 2006 (with an extended season of children's sessions throughout January 2007)
Special slide lecture by Philip Brophy:
Thursday December 14th 2006 @ 6pm

Chauvel Cinema
Sydney - March 29th to April 1st 2007
Special slide lecture by Philip Brophy:
Saturday March 31st 2007 @ 3pm

Australian Cinematheque
Brisbane - April 5th to 14th 2007
Special slide lecture by Philip Brophy:
Thursday April 5th 2007 @ 4.30pm

Mercury Cinema
Adelaide - May 1st to 8th 2007
Special slide lecture by Philip Brophy:
Thursday April 5th 2007 @ 4.30pm

Luma Cinemas (Revelation - Perth International Film Festival)
Perth - July 13th to 27th 2007
Special slide lecture by Philip Brophy:
Saturday July 14th 2007 @ 2pm

Concurrent with the Focus on TEZUKA anime programme is the manga exhibition TEZUKA: The Marvel of Manga – past dates and venues:

National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne - November 3rd 2006 to January 28th 2007
Special slide lectures by Philip Brophy:
Friday November 10th 2006 @ 12.30pm
Sunday December 10th 2006 @ 12.30pm
Saturday January 20th 2006 @ 12.30pm

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney - February 23rd 2007 to April 29th 2007
Special slide lectures by Philip Brophy:
Friday February 23rd 2007 @ 1.00pm
Wednesday March 14th 2007 @ 10.00am

Asian Art Museum
San Francisco - June 2nd 2007 to September 9th 2007
Special slide lectures by Philip Brophy:
Saturday June 2nd 2007 @ 1.00pm

Complete contents of this page © Philip Brophy (All images © Tezuka Productions)