Bruno Bettina

Masao Adachi the author and director of experimental works and pinkueiga in the 1960s was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter In 1974 he joined the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon which worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck met Adachi in Tokyo in 2018 and talked with him about a wide range of topics including art revolution the influence of western avantgarde art and American underground the Japanese Red Army collaboration with secret services the role of the Left after 1968 and the reasons for failures of leftist ideas and strategies