Dir. Isao Fujisawa / 1974 / Japan / 85 mins
Isao Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love was considered to be lost until 2018, when a film negative was discovered hidden in a warehouse. A newly restored print presented in collaboration with Queer East and Normal Cinema Club offers a rare chance to experience this radical and stray piece of queer cinema in its 50th anniversary year.
Romantic love and desire transcends gender, sexuality and the physical body in Fujisawa’s mesmerizingly doomed summer road trip through Japan, reflecting on the dissipating promise of the 60’s counterculture and free love. Achieving increasingly radical strides against traditionalist notions heteronormative relationships (both platonic and otherwise), Fujisawa’s explicit portrayal of gender fluidity and the complexity of experiences beyond the binary makes for a seductive, ill-fated ‘love on the run’ adventure.
Bye Bye Love will be preceded by a short film curated by Normal Cinema Club, and a pre-recorded intro from director Isao Fujisawa.
Age suitability: 18+
Presented in collaboration with Queer East and Normal Cinema Club
Screened in partnership with QFT
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