We hope to transport visitors to a cinematic environment, somewhere between reality and illusion. We want to give visitors a place to explore and discuss the impact of film. For more than 120 years, cinema has been central to global culture and the way we perceive, question, and, at times, escape the world around us. “The Academy Museum will be a hub for film lovers where people from across the city and around the world can enjoy, learn, and engage with movies and moviemakers. ![]() You go from sequence to sequence, from the exhibition galleries to the film theater and the terrace, with everything blending into one experience.” By connecting these two experiences we create something that is itself like a movie. The new structure, the Sphere Building, is a form that seems to lift off the ground into the perpetual, imaginary voyage through space and time that is moviegoing. The historic Saban Building is a wonderful example of Streamline Moderne style, which preserves the way people envisioned the future in 1939. “The Academy Museum gives us the opportunity to honor the past while creating a building for the future-in fact, for the possibility of many futures. The revitalized campus will feature more than 50,000 square feet of gallery space, two theaters, cutting-edge project spaces, an outdoor piazza, the rooftop terrace, an active education studio, a restaurant, and store. Celebrating its history and imagining new possibilities, the additions to the building that date from 1946 have been removed and replaced with a spherical building that features the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater and the Dolby Family Terrace with views towards Hollywood. Situated on the famed “Miracle Mile,” the museum will preserve and breathe new life into the former 1939 May Company department store, now re-named the Saban Building. For more information, visit janm.When it opens in the heart of Los Angeles, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be the world’s premier movie museum. On all other Thursdays, JANM is free from 5 p.m.–8 p.m. JANM is free every third Thursday of the month. JANM is open on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday–Sunday from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Since opening to the public in 1992, JANM has presented over 70 exhibitions onsite while traveling 17 exhibits to venues such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Ellis Island Museum in the United States, and to several leading cultural museums in Japan and South America. Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, JANM is a hybrid institution that straddles traditional museum categories and strives to provide a voice for Japanese Americans as well as a forum that enables all people to explore their own heritage and culture. Remarkable location photography lends an air of realism to this once-lost treasure, which will be shown with live musical accompaniment by pianist, improviser, and composer Naomi Nakanishi.įollowing the film, Renee Tajima-Peña, professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, will moderate a panel discussion with Stephen Gong, executive director of the Center for Asian American Media Karen Ishizuka, chief curator at JANM and Denise Khor, associate professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies at Northeastern University.Ībout the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)Įstablished in 1985, JANM promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. When they reunite four years later, they discover that their lives are irrevocably and tragically changed. As Masao becomes an athletic star at Berkeley, Hisa languishes in Japan. When the protagonist, Masao, leaves Japan to study at UC Berkeley, he also leaves his lover, Hisa, who is caring for her ailing father. The restoration was a partnership among Khor, JANM, and the George Eastman Museum and supported by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The three-reel film is believed to be the earliest Asian American film production. Made by the Japanese American Film Company, a company based in Los Angeles and led by Japanese immigrants, The Oath of the Sword had an all-Japanese cast. ![]() ![]() Once thought to be lost, the sole surviving print of The Oath of the Sword was recently rediscovered at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, by scholar Denise Khor of Northeastern University. Tickets are $5 ($4 for members of the Academy Museum or JANM) and are available at /calendar. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the premiere screening of the recently restored 1914 silent film The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at 2 p.m.
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