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Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ) is an international, 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, documenting, and disseminating the legacy of Japanese experimental moving image made in 1950s—1980s, in order to enable their appreciation by a wider audience.
Without this effort, this unique sector of Japanese cultural heritage, which historically has been underrepresented and unsupported, would remain available to only a very few. Buried in artists’ studios or independent archives, many works are in danger of literal disappearance as film and video mediums continue to deteriorate.
The scope of moving image focus includes: fine art on film and video, documentations of performance, independently produced documentaries, experimental animation, and experimental television. For more information, please visit:
コラボラティヴ・カタロギング・ジャパンは日本の実験映像作品(1950s—1980s)の記録、保存、情報提供を支援します。CCJは作品を保持しているコレクション(美術館、大学、図書館、個人作家)へ持続性や共有性を有する記録制作(データベース)や作品の保存プロジェクトのサポートを提供します。また問題の取り組みの中で専門家、機関、個人とのネットワークの育みをサポートします。 CCJはアメリカ政府に認可された非営利団体です。
Past Events Index
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2024
- Nov 1, 2024 – Dec 1, 2024 November Members' Viewing: Works from the 1975 Video Art Exhibition (CCJ x EAI) Nov 1, 2024 – Dec 1, 2024
- Oct 1, 2024 – Oct 31, 2024 October Members' Viewing: Expo '70 & Expo '67 by Ko Nakajima Oct 1, 2024 – Oct 31, 2024
- Sep 28, 2024 Video Letter Exchange - Screening & Performance Sep 28, 2024
- Sep 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2024 September Members' Viewing: Jud Yalkut on Yukihisa Isobe Sep 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2024
- Aug 9, 2024 Closing Reception & Performance Aug 9, 2024
- Aug 8, 2024 DAY 5, 8/8: DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) Aug 8, 2024
- Aug 7, 2024 DAY 4, 8/7: DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) Aug 7, 2024
- Aug 6, 2024 DAY 3, 8/6: DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) Aug 6, 2024
- Aug 5, 2024 DAY 2, 8/5: DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) Aug 5, 2024
- Aug 4, 2024 DAY 1, 8/4: DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) Aug 4, 2024
- Aug 4, 2024 – Aug 8, 2024 DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset) -- After Yukihisa Isobe’s Air Dome Aug 4, 2024 – Aug 8, 2024
- Aug 1, 2024 Video Letter Exchange at Asia Art Archive in America Aug 1, 2024
- Aug 1, 2024 – Aug 31, 2024 August Members' Viewing: Nadia Hironaka and Shinpei Takeda Aug 1, 2024 – Aug 31, 2024
- Jul 31, 2024 – Aug 1, 2024 PhillyCAM Youth Media Workshop x Community of Images Jul 31, 2024 – Aug 1, 2024
- Jul 19, 2024 Video Letter Exchange - Screening & Performance Jul 19, 2024
- Jul 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2024 July Members' Viewing: Yu Araki, Hikaru Suzuki & Franca Malfatti Jul 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2024
- Jun 22, 2024 Family Program - Vintage Vanguard: Experimental Art Workshop Jun 22, 2024
- Jun 17, 2024 Symposium: Community of Images Jun 17, 2024
- Jun 16, 2024 Magnetic Resonances: Japanese and American artists in the 1975 ICA Video Art exhibition Jun 16, 2024
- Jun 16, 2024 Films & Yasunao Tone: Composer, Filmmaker, and Performer Jun 16, 2024
- Jun 15, 2024 A Talk on the Video Talk Show: A Panel Discussion Jun 15, 2024
- Jun 14, 2024 Opening Reception: Community of Images Exhibition Jun 14, 2024
- Jun 4, 2024 The Curfew Lookbook: A screening with Shehrezad Maher Jun 4, 2024
- Jun 3, 2024 – Jun 30, 2024 June Members' Viewing: 1972 Performance Records - Gann Matsushita, Michael Goldberg, Tokyo Kid Brothers Jun 3, 2024 – Jun 30, 2024
- May 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024 May Members' Viewing: Video Information Center - Part III May 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024
- Apr 20, 2024 Immigrant Artists Exchange: Discussing the Locality Apr 20, 2024
- Apr 4, 2024 Messages From the Avant-Garde: EAI x Collaborative Cataloging Japan Apr 4, 2024
- Apr 1, 2024 – May 1, 2024 April Members' Viewing: Video Information Center - Part II Apr 1, 2024 – May 1, 2024
- Mar 1, 2024 – Apr 1, 2024 March Members' Viewing: Video Information Center - Part I Mar 1, 2024 – Apr 1, 2024
- Feb 1, 2024 – Mar 1, 2024 February Members' Viewing: Ground Level Cinema グラウンド・レベル・シネマ Feb 1, 2024 – Mar 1, 2024
- Jan 1, 2024 – Feb 1, 2024 January Members' Viewing: Animaker & Aniputer Jan 1, 2024 – Feb 1, 2024
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2023
- Dec 1, 2023 – Jan 1, 2024 December Members' Viewing: Dan Sandin & Ko Nakajima Dec 1, 2023 – Jan 1, 2024
- Nov 28, 2023 – Dec 6, 2023 #GivingTuesday Screening: Taku Furukawa Nov 28, 2023 – Dec 6, 2023
- Nov 21, 2023 – Dec 6, 2023 Online Screening: Midi Onodera Nov 21, 2023 – Dec 6, 2023
- Nov 1, 2023 – Nov 30, 2023 November Members' Viewing: Kioto Aoki Nov 1, 2023 – Nov 30, 2023
- Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 31, 2023 October Members' Viewing: Keiji Uematsu in Germany Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 31, 2023
- Sep 1, 2023 – Sep 30, 2023 September Members' Viewing: CATV Works of Video Earth Sep 1, 2023 – Sep 30, 2023
- Aug 18, 2023 – Sep 2, 2023 Online Screening: Bye Bye Love (1974) Aug 18, 2023 – Sep 2, 2023
- Aug 1, 2023 – Aug 31, 2023 August Members' Viewing: Transmissions from the U.S. Aug 1, 2023 – Aug 31, 2023
- Jul 1, 2023 – Jul 31, 2023 July Members' Viewing: Haruka Doi Jul 1, 2023 – Jul 31, 2023
- Jun 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2023 June Members' Viewing: Mari Terashima Jun 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2023
- May 12, 2023 – May 19, 2023 Online Screening: In Memory of Masanobu Nakamura May 12, 2023 – May 19, 2023
- May 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023 May Members' Viewing: Masanobu Nakamura & Touch Me, and the blue luxury May 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023
- Apr 1, 2023 – Apr 30, 2023 April Members' Viewing: Ko Nakajima Part 4, Deeper Still Apr 1, 2023 – Apr 30, 2023
- Mar 1, 2023 – Mar 31, 2023 March Members' Viewing: Ko Nakajima Part 3, Documentary Works Mar 1, 2023 – Mar 31, 2023
- Feb 1, 2023 – Feb 28, 2023 February Members' Viewing: Ko Nakajima Part 2, Technical Experiments Feb 1, 2023 – Feb 28, 2023
- Jan 12, 2023 Online Launch Event! CCJ Viewing Library Beta - Ko Nakajima, Barbara London, Alex Zahlten, Fusako Matsu Jan 12, 2023
- Jan 12, 2023 – Jan 29, 2023 Kyoko Michishita Online Screening Jan 12, 2023 – Jan 29, 2023
- Jan 1, 2023 – Jan 31, 2023 January Members' Viewing: Ko Nakajima Part 1, My Life Study Jan 1, 2023 – Jan 31, 2023
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2022
- Dec 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022 December Members' Viewing: Kyoko Michishita Part 2 Dec 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
- Nov 3, 2022 – Nov 13, 2022 Masao Adachi's Female Student Guerrilla Nov 3, 2022 – Nov 13, 2022
- Nov 1, 2022 – Nov 30, 2022 November Members' Viewing: Kyoko Michishita Part 1 Nov 1, 2022 – Nov 30, 2022
- Oct 29, 2022 Live Online Event - Stepping Out of Politics: Films by Masao Adachi Oct 29, 2022
- Oct 27, 2022 – Nov 6, 2022 Koji Wakamatsu's Sex Jack Oct 27, 2022 – Nov 6, 2022
- Oct 1, 2022 – Oct 31, 2022 October Members' Viewing: Motoharu Jonouchi Part 2 Oct 1, 2022 – Oct 31, 2022
- Sep 1, 2022 – Sep 30, 2022 September Members' Viewing: Motoharu Jonouchi Part 1 Sep 1, 2022 – Sep 30, 2022
- Aug 18, 2022 – Aug 28, 2022 The Compulsive Landscape: Eri Saito & Masanobu Nakamura Aug 18, 2022 – Aug 28, 2022
- Aug 1, 2022 – Aug 31, 2022 August Members' Viewing: Michiko Sasaki's To Die Sometime Aug 1, 2022 – Aug 31, 2022
- Jul 1, 2022 – Jul 31, 2022 July Members' Viewing: Yutaka Matsuzawa Part 3 Jul 1, 2022 – Jul 31, 2022
- Jun 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2022 June Members' Viewing: Yutaka Matsuzawa Part 2 Jun 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2022
- May 1, 2022 – May 31, 2022 May Members' Viewing: Yutaka Matsuzawa Part 1 May 1, 2022 – May 31, 2022
- Apr 1, 2022 – Apr 30, 2022 April Members' Viewing: Morihiro Wada Part II Apr 1, 2022 – Apr 30, 2022
- Mar 18, 2022 – Mar 27, 2022 Anarchic Visions of Everyday: Women’s Cinematic Experiments in the 1990s Mar 18, 2022 – Mar 27, 2022
- Mar 1, 2022 – Mar 31, 2022 March Members' Viewing: Morihiro Wada Mar 1, 2022 – Mar 31, 2022
- Feb 25, 2022 Experiments in Flicker & Love Feb 25, 2022
- Feb 19, 2022 Ryōhei Yanagihara and Hiroshi Manabe: Out of Three-Person Animation Circle Feb 19, 2022
- Feb 11, 2022 Yōji Kuri: Art, Life and Opinions Feb 11, 2022
- Feb 1, 2022 – Feb 28, 2022 February Members' Viewing: Taku Furukawa Part 3 Feb 1, 2022 – Feb 28, 2022
- Jan 1, 2022 – Jan 31, 2022 January Members' Viewing: Taku Furukawa Part 2 Jan 1, 2022 – Jan 31, 2022
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2021
- Dec 10, 2021 Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan Winter Panel Event Dec 10, 2021
- Dec 9, 2021 Interrogating Ecology: Workshop Dec 9, 2021
- Dec 3, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021 Norio Imai: Eizō as Intermedial Practice Dec 3, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021
- Dec 2, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021 View Recorded Panel Presentations: Interrogating Ecology Winter Panel Dec 2, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021
- Dec 1, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021 December Members' Viewing: Taku Furukawa Part 1 Dec 1, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021
- Nov 12, 2021 – Nov 21, 2021 Music for Animation: Yōji Kuri and Kuniharu Akiyama Nov 12, 2021 – Nov 21, 2021
- Nov 1, 2021 – Nov 30, 2021 November Members Viewing: Masanobu Nakamura Part 3 Nov 1, 2021 – Nov 30, 2021
- Oct 1, 2021 – Oct 31, 2021 October Members Viewing: Masanobu Nakamura Part 2 Oct 1, 2021 – Oct 31, 2021
- Sep 9, 2021 Book Celebration Event at EYE Filmmuseum: Eye on Art - Japanese Expanded Cinema Screening and Lecture by Julian Ross Sep 9, 2021
- Sep 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2021 September Members Viewing: Masanobu Nakamura Part 1 Sep 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2021
- Aug 13, 2021 – Aug 29, 2021 Tsuneo Nakai Program 2: Film as Phenomenon, 1971-1974 Aug 13, 2021 – Aug 29, 2021
- Aug 1, 2021 – Aug 31, 2021 August Membership Feature: Arakawa & Gins Aug 1, 2021 – Aug 31, 2021
- Jul 9, 2021 – Jul 18, 2021 Tsuneo Nakai Program 1: Underground Films 1967-68 Jul 9, 2021 – Jul 18, 2021
- Jul 1, 2021 – Jul 31, 2021 Membership Feature: Keiichi Tanaami Part 3 Jul 1, 2021 – Jul 31, 2021
- Jun 21, 2021 – Jun 22, 2021 T.V. to See the Sky Inspired by Yoko Ono’s work, SKY T.V Jun 21, 2021 – Jun 22, 2021
- Jun 11, 2021 – Jun 20, 2021 Nobuhiro Aihara Program 2: Animation as Landscape Theory Jun 11, 2021 – Jun 20, 2021
- Jun 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2021 Membership Feature: Keiichi Tanaami Part 2 Jun 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2021
- May 21, 2021 – May 31, 2021 Nobuhiro Aihara Program 1: Animated Psychedelia May 21, 2021 – May 31, 2021
- May 14, 2021 Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan May 14, 2021
- May 14, 2021 Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan May 14, 2021
- May 1, 2021 – May 31, 2021 Membership Feature: Keiichi Tanaami Part 1 May 1, 2021 – May 31, 2021
- Apr 1, 2021 – Apr 30, 2021 Membership Feature: Kohei Ando Part 4 Apr 1, 2021 – Apr 30, 2021
- Mar 1, 2021 – Mar 31, 2021 Membership Feature: Kohei Ando Part 3 Mar 1, 2021 – Mar 31, 2021
- Feb 26, 2021 – Mar 14, 2021 Something Within Me: Mako Idemitsu Streaming Programs Feb 26, 2021 – Mar 14, 2021
- Feb 20, 2021 – Feb 25, 2021 A Celebratory Reading to Book Launch with CCJ Supporters and Yasunao Tone Feb 20, 2021 – Feb 25, 2021
- Feb 1, 2021 – Feb 28, 2021 Membership Feature: Kohei Ando Part 2 Feb 1, 2021 – Feb 28, 2021
- Jan 1, 2021 – Jan 31, 2021 Membership Feature: Kohei Ando Part 1 Jan 1, 2021 – Jan 31, 2021
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2020
- Dec 11, 2020 – Dec 20, 2020 Michio Okabe: The Doctrine of Creation (1967) and Camp (1970) Dec 11, 2020 – Dec 20, 2020
- Dec 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020 Membership Feature: Keiji Uematsu Part 3 Dec 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
- Nov 20, 2020 – Nov 29, 2020 Michio Okabe's Crazy Love (1968) Nov 20, 2020 – Nov 29, 2020
- Nov 19, 2020 Gewaltpia: Motoharu Jonouchi and the Japanese Avant-Garde Featuring a live discussion with Masao Adachi Nov 19, 2020
- Nov 1, 2020 – Nov 30, 2020 Membership Feature: Keiji Uematsu Part 2 Nov 1, 2020 – Nov 30, 2020
- Oct 1, 2020 – Oct 30, 2020 Membership Feature: Keiji Uematsu Part 1 Oct 1, 2020 – Oct 30, 2020
- Sep 23, 2020 Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Japanese Experimental Moving Image, 1955-1979 Sep 23, 2020
- Aug 27, 2020 – Apr 18, 2021 Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination at MoMA Aug 27, 2020 – Apr 18, 2021
- Aug 19, 2020 – Aug 31, 2020 Vital Signals: Selected Works Aug 19, 2020 – Aug 31, 2020
- Jun 25, 2020 – Jul 2, 2020 "Ritual" as an Image Jun 25, 2020 – Jul 2, 2020
- Apr 9, 2020 – May 15, 2020 *CANCELED* Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver: De-Time Apr 9, 2020 – May 15, 2020
- Apr 2, 2020 *CANCELED* More Than Cinema Performance by Katsu Kanai & Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver Apr 2, 2020
- Mar 8, 2020 Gallery Dialogues: More Than Cinema Mar 8, 2020
- Mar 6, 2020 – Nov 22, 2020 More Than Cinema: Motoharu Jonouchi and Keiichi Tanaami Mar 6, 2020 – Nov 22, 2020
- Feb 3, 2020 – Apr 10, 2020 Translation Through Time : PACC at Haverford College Feb 3, 2020 – Apr 10, 2020
- Feb 3, 2020 Translation Through Time: Public Talk Feb 3, 2020
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2019
- Dec 11, 2019 Masao Adachi's Galaxy Presented With Nightletter Dec 11, 2019
- May 18, 2019 – Jul 4, 2019 Ko Nakajima Exhibition & Screening: New Digitizations May 18, 2019 – Jul 4, 2019
- Apr 25, 2019 SCREENING | KEIJI UEMATSU: FILMS AND VIDEOS 1970–1976 Apr 25, 2019
- Apr 14, 2019 Ko Nakajima Screening at WhiteBox Harlem Apr 14, 2019
- Mar 12, 2019 Ko Nakajima: Video Earth Tokyo and Japanese Cable Access at PhillyCAM Mar 12, 2019
- Mar 11, 2019 MOVING ART: JAPANESE ANIMATION FROM 1800 - 1960 WITH KO NAKAJIMA Mar 11, 2019
- Mar 8, 2019 Ko Nakajima: Video Earth Tokyo and Japanese Cable Access at EAI Mar 8, 2019
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2018
- Dec 15, 2018 Nobuhiro Aihara: Works 1982-2008 - Programs C & D Dec 15, 2018
- Dec 14, 2018 Nobuhiro Aihara: Works 1982-2008 - Programs A & B Dec 14, 2018
- Aug 9, 2018 Japanese Experimental Animation: Ko Nakajima, Keiichi Tanaami, and Nobuhiro A Aug 9, 2018
- Jun 13, 2018 Viewing Program & Julian Ross Talk at Rikumo Jun 13, 2018
- Feb 10, 2018 シンポジウム「タイムベースド・メディアの収集保存」/ International Panel at Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art Feb 10, 2018
- Feb 9, 2018 – Feb 16, 2018 2018 Collection Survey & Professional Exchange Feb 9, 2018 – Feb 16, 2018
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2017
- Dec 2, 2017 Panel at AMIA New Orleans: SKILL SHARE IN ASIA & AFRICA Dec 2, 2017
- Nov 4, 2017 Japanese Expanded Cinema Screenings Nov 4, 2017
- Mar 10, 2017 1960s Japanese Expanded Cinema: Panels at New York University Mar 10, 2017
- Mar 4, 2017 Shifting Materialities of Film: Projection, Preservation, and Research Mar 4, 2017
- Feb 19, 2017 Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver: Experimental Japanese Film, 1966–69 Feb 19, 2017
- Feb 11, 2017 Newsreel Documentaries of Masanori Oe Feb 11, 2017
- Feb 4, 2017 Masao Adachi's Female Student Guerrilla at International House Philadelphia Feb 4, 2017
- Feb 3, 2017 To preserve film is to project it: A conversation about networked archiving and the preservation of Japanese experimental film Feb 3, 2017
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2016
- Nov 26, 2016 「日米のオルタナティブ・映像アーカイブの成り立ちと現在で方向性」 Nov 26, 2016
- Nov 21, 2016 – Nov 26, 2016 CCJ in Tokyo: Collection Survey & Professional Exchange Nov 21, 2016 – Nov 26, 2016
- Nov 14, 2016 Mako Idemitsu & Shigeko Kubota Screening @ PAAFF 2016 Nov 14, 2016
- Oct 1, 2016 – Oct 30, 2016 Taka Iimura's MA:Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoanji Oct 1, 2016 – Oct 30, 2016
- Mar 3, 2016 Five Japanese Pioneers Mar 3, 2016
- Feb 18, 2016 Experimental Films of the 1960’s from Nihon University Feb 18, 2016
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2015
- Oct 30, 2015 CCJ at NYU SYMPOSIUM: COLLAPSING DISCIPLINES AND DISTANCE: EXPERIMENTS IN JAPANESE ARTS IN THE 1970S Oct 30, 2015
- Oct 14, 2015 Experimental Films of the 1960s from Nihon University Oct 14, 2015
- Sep 11, 2015 Video and Before: Five Japanese Pioneers Sep 11, 2015
- Sep 10, 2015 Archival Impulse: Collecting and Conserving the Moving Image in Asia Sep 10, 2015
- Sep 9, 2015 – Sep 11, 2015 Archival Impulse: Field Trips Sep 9, 2015 – Sep 11, 2015
- Sep 5, 2015 – Sep 6, 2015 Redefining Access: Japanese Materials, the Archive and Research in the New Media Ecology Sep 5, 2015 – Sep 6, 2015