The Man Who Left His Will on Film at Ocularis

The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Nagisa Oshima, 1970, 94min.
Sunday, February 20 at 7 pm
Ticket Price $6

Ocularis presents a screening of Nagisa Oshima's The Man Who Left His Will on Film, one of the most ambitious, challenging and surprisingly overlooked works by one of the giants of the Japanese New Wave.

This haunting, politically intriguing film captures the turbulent Tokyo of the 1960s. A young leftist finds the loaded camera of another radical who has leapt to his death while fleeing the police. The "will and testament" he discovers inside is apparently meaningless, but it begins to obsess the young man, leading him to retrace the political and erotic past of the filmmaker and, in effect, to re-live the events that led to his suicidal leap.

About Ocularis

Ocularis is a 501©3 not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for the exhibition of independent, experimental and documentary film/video and new media, as well as international and repertory cinema. Ocularis was established in 1996 as a rooftop film series catering to local audiences in North Brooklyn. Since then, Ocularis has evolved into a weekly cinema, a producer of collaborative film/video work and an annual summer open-air screening series.

Ocularis screens weekly at:
Galapagos Art & Performance Space.
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.ocularis.net
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