Collaborative Cataloging Japan

CCJ is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization & streaming platform supporting Japanese experimental moving image.

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Thrilled to be showing the two parts of (S)mothering Myself: Feelings in Renting a Mother Part I & II (2024) this April — provocation and possibility from artist and researcher @maarisugs.

https://t.co/9TnV9kaQbA

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

“Small fragments of feeling” — there’s two extra days to catch the three fantastic films in our @shun_ikezoe program!

Featuring DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA, SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, OSCILLATION, all from 2020.

https://t.co/gyJy82Cr4Y

[Shun Ikezoe @shun_ikezoe]

@CollabJapanFilm Last 2 days！
Oscillation, Dissociative amnesia, and See you in my dreams are on CCJ @CollabJapanFilm now.

『揺蕩』『あの人の顔を思い出せない』『朝の夢』がCCJにて明日2月2日まで公開中です。ぜひご覧ください。

https://t.co/pDfW8ZOlFc

Curated by Mia @suffering_fruit

[Shun Ikezoe @shun_ikezoe]

皆様、あけましておめでとうございます。
この度、コラボラティブ・カタロギング・ジャパン(CCJ) @collabjapanfilm の2026年最初のプログラムとして、自作『朝の夢』『あの人の顔を思い出せない』『揺蕩』を選出していただきました。
キュレーター：Mia Parnall
https://t.co/pDfW8ZOlFc

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

“In this work I wanted to burn my father… Perhaps I wanted to hold my own funeral for him, who was gone so suddenly.”

Just over a week left to view Haruka Doi’s My Father, Burned (1994) on CCJ.

https://t.co/SOqNPzwmdl

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

第26回　ヴィデオアート研究会【12月6日】研究会開催のお知らせ
午前10時（日本時間)

足立アン:「Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US,1960s–1970s」についてのオンライントーク

https://t.co/MM9jCKDjO6

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

This December, we are delighted to present My Father, Burned (1994) — a raw example of 1990s personal documentary from filmmaker and musician Haruka Doi, subtitled for the first time in English.

Watch throughout December ❄️

https://t.co/SOqNPzwmdl

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

“A film completely free of dogma and convention” — catch Akihiro Suzuki’s LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL at @LightboxFilmCtr on Wednesday, + virtual Q&A with the director himself.

https://t.co/BrxedsdDzc

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

DISTANT VOICES is playing Milwaukee tonight & tomorrow at UWM Union Cinema (no tix online, just come in person) and in Philly tomorrow at Asian Arts Initiative (pay what you want). I’ll be at Philly to give the intro; that screening is co-presented with @CollabJapanFilm ✨

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Hikaru Suzuki’s GOD AND FATHER AND ME (2008) is a personal documentary about Suzuki’s own father, who left home to become a spiritual healer caught between “believing in God and becoming God himself.”

Available on CCJ until 12/1!

https://t.co/bQVmbGIez4

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

This Saturday 11/15 - Takashi Ito’s feature DISTANT VOICES (2024) presented with @toneglow at Asian Arts Initiative in Philly!

@misterminsoo will introduce the film, the latest output from the legendary Ito with a theme of supernatural communication.

https://t.co/47K1UmVsIA

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

This November we’re delighted to present a focus on filmmaker Hikaru Suzuki with GOD AND FATHER AND ME (2008) and Anrakuto (2011), experimental works that investigate the family as a complex of intimacies, expectations and deviations.

https://t.co/bQVmbGIez4

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Last chance to get your infectious dose of Yōji Kuri on CCJ!

What Do You Think? depicts the modern mind — flitting between media (found footage, animation, stop motion) as quickly as topics (sex, news, war).

Huge thanks to @matsu_fusako and @yojikuri.

https://t.co/1nsDpvM27W

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Shūsaku Arakawa interviewed by Yōji Kuri 🔠

Arakawa’s episode of “Art, Life and Opinions” (1973) meanders through a variety of subjects, accompanied by shots of his conceptual drawings and diagrams.

Watch on CCJ until the end of October 🍃🍂
https://t.co/1nsDpvM27W

[松房子 @matsu_fusako]

CCJのクリヨウジ特集、いよいよ10月がラストです。「美術」をテーマに合田佐和子、荒川修作のインタビュードキュメンタリーと『あなたは何を考えているの？』を配信しています🎤

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Sawako Gōda was an artist interviewed by Yōji Kuri in 1973, whose artworks had a distinctly Gothic sensibility — from painted eggs to sculptures made from horse bone.

Enjoy this fascinating insight into Gōda’s work and life, now on CCJ! 🦋 @matsu_fusako

https://t.co/1nsDpvM27W

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Now showing! In 1973, Yōji Kuri launched Art, Life and Opinions, a series of relaxed interviews with prominent artists.

This October, watch the Sawako Gōda and Shūsaku Arakawa episodes on CCJ, exclusively subtitled in English! @matsu_fusako @yojikuri

https://t.co/1nsDpvM27W

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

Last day!

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

This September, we are delighted to present the second episode in our Yōji Kuri season by @matsu_fusako!

The program includes mini-animations broadcast on the cult late-night TV show 11PM, as well as a short TV documentary about Kuri aired in 1964.

https://t.co/MiRczyc9d9

[松房子 @matsu_fusako]

CCJのクリヨウジ特集、9月は「テレビ」がテーマです。
「11PM」で放送していたミニミニアニメーションと、70年代に撮影されたクリさんのドキュメンタリーを配信中です☺️📺

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

The life of an animator: The Man Who Makes Tomorrow (Ashita wo tsukuru hito) is a documentary about Yōji Kuri aired on television in 1964, giving a fascinating insight into his daily life.

Don’t miss the last few days of our Yōji Kuri program at CCJ!

https://t.co/MiRczyc9d9