Film Screening + Artist Talk » » Futoshi Miyagi

Futoshi Miyagi is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for his participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui, BoxJelly, for co-hosting this presentation with us. Special thanks to our exclusive airline partner, Hawaiian Airlines, and Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for their support. 📸 Portrait of Futoshi Miyagi. Photo: Mie Morimoto. Futoshi Miyagi, Flower Names (still), 2015, video, color, sound, 20 mins, 59 secs.

🌟 Join us for a special film screening and talk with Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 visiting artist Futoshi Miyagi. We'll screen the five-chapter film Flower Names (2015), which intertwines love stories from Greek mythology with contemporary romances in Okinawa. The film is part of Miyagi’s ongoing project American Boyfriend (2012–), which queries the “possibility of an Okinawan man and an American man falling in love in Okinawa.” Narratives center around themes of race, sexuality, and nationality, traversing tensions inherent in Okinawa’s history under American military occupation and reflecting Miyagi’s own identity as a queer artist in a hetero-normative patriarchal social order in Okinawa. After the screening, Miyagi will talk about how he incorporates writing and artist book culture in his practice, and will share some of his zines, editions, and ephemera.

SAT | 12 OCT | 6PM
BoxJelly
at Ward Centre
1200 Ala Moana Blvd • 2nd Floor
Free parking, entrance off of Auahi Street 

Free and open to the public.