Vtape is excited to announce the first in a projected cycle of occasional collaborations with New York-based e-flux, a powerhouse of critical writing, curatorial projects, and online access. For this first presentation, e-flux Staff Picks makes three very different works by Japanese filmmaker and video artist, writer, translator, and feminist icon Kyoko Michishita available for the month of April!

See the intimate personal documentary Being Women in Japan Series: Liberation Within My Family (1974); Video Portraits – Men: Shuntarō Tanikawa (1982), one of a series of brief, witty portraits of male cultural figures; and the monumental 16mm film Cherry Blossoms (1975), which draws out a minatory aspect in the traditional springtime sight of cherry trees in bloom, with music by Toshi Ichiyanagi.

Image credit (home page): Being Women in Japan Series: Liberation Within My Family, by Kyoko Michishita (1974)