A.K.A. Serial Killer Screening at Beirut Art Center

In parallel with Eric Baudelaire’s solo exhibition, “Now Here Then Elsewhere”, the Beirut Art Center has given carte blanche to the artist to propose a screening program around the same theme. The first movie to be screened is “A.K.A. Serial Killer” by director Masao Adachi.

Synopsis: A companion to Nagisa Oshima’s “The Man Who Left His Will on Film”, “A.K.A Serial Killer” documented the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s.

Director Adachi, screenwriter Sasaki and film critic Matsuda put fukeiron (landscape theory) into practice in their profile of nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.

Entrance fee: 3,000 LL