The annual Yebisu Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, an art and film festival, is running until February 26th at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Yebisu Garden Place.

The 9th edition of the festival has the overall theme of "Multiple Futures," and will explore the characteristics of video, which incorporates reproduction technology, and the changes its development has brought to individuals and society through exhibitions, screenings, live performances, symposiums, lectures, and more, inviting works from a variety of genres and guests from Japan and abroad.

The main venue is the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, which was recently renovated in September 2016. The introduction will feature works from the museum, including "Me with a Gun/Dedicated to Warhol," a tribute to Andy Warhol by Yasumasa Morimura, known for his numerous works in which he portrays himself as various pop stars, actresses, and other characters; "FACIAL SIGNATURE," in which Tomoko Sawada uses numerous self-portraits to examine the subtle differences between East Asian women; "Books on Books," an animation by up-and-coming filmmaker Ray Ray based on a 1988 book "Foreign Book Designs" that belonged to his father; and "Poppy: Following Afghan Heroin," an installation by Robert North and Antoinette de Jongh that traces the international heroin distribution route and the social realities that unfold along that path through over 20 years of research. Additionally, a large screen has been installed in the museum's second-floor lobby following its renovation, where Gabriela Mangano and Silvana Mangano's video work "There Is Not There" will be on display. The video was inspired by "The Blue Blouses," a political propaganda theater movement popular in the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s. It extracts poses and actions from images in contemporary news media and re-presents them through choreographed movements and gestures of multiple women's bodies, accompanied by live sound by composer Daniel Janasz.

Various other exhibitions and film screenings are also taking place at venues around the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. At the Ito Architectural School Ebisu Studio (3-32-12 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), there will be a screening of the film "Le Corbusier's House," which is set in the Curutchet House, one of Le Corbusier's architectural works, which was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2016. At G/P Gallery (1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, NADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F), there will be "Generated X," a solo exhibition by photographer Taisuke Koyama, his first in Japan in three years. At NADiff Gallery (1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, NADiff A/P/A/R/T B1F), there will be "Photo Secession Exhibition vol.4 (tentative title)," an exhibition commemorating the publication of a book summarizing the activities of the "Photo Secession," a group of photographers and critics founded in 2010. At AL (3-7-17 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), there will be a screening of the film "Le Corbusier's House," which is set in the Curutchet House, one of Le Corbusier's architectural works, which was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2016. On the 1st floor, there will be a two-person exhibition titled "The Reading -- Mitamura Kodori and Ozumi Noriko," by internationally acclaimed artist Mitamura Kodori, who also participated in the Aichi Triennale 2016, and London-based video and visual artist Ozumi Noriko, while YEBISU GARDEN CINEMA (located in Ebisu Garden Place, 4-20-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) will be screening Xavier Dolan's latest film, "It's Only the End of the World."

【Event Information】
"9th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions"
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Maison Franco-Japonaise, The Garden Room, Yebisu Garden Place Center Plaza, various local solidarity locations, etc.
Address: Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Dates: February 10th - 26th, 2017
Hours: 10:00 - 20:00 (until 18:00 on the last day)
Closed: Mondays
Free admission