Background
Kenji Kanesaka was born on September 22, 1934 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kenji Kanesaka was born on September 22, 1934 in Tokyo, Japan.
Kenji Kanesaka graduated in English from Keio University, Tokyo (1956). He later attended the Harvard International Seminar on Culture (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in the summer of 1961, and was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University Film Department, Evanston, Illinois (1964-1965).
A freelancer, Kenji Kanesaka was a reporter for Asahi Graph Magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The photographer won a Fulbright Fund travel grant in 1964 and the top Fred A. Niles prize from the Hull House International Experimental Film Festival in Chicago (1965) for the film The Burning Ear. His other films include Hopscotch (1967) and Super Up (1966).
Kenji Kanesaka, one of the founding members of the "Film Independent" group and the Japan Filmmakers Co-op in Tokyo, is an experimental filmmaker and photographer who organized an experimental film festival with Takahiko Iimura at the Sogetsu Art Center in Japan (probably the most important exhibition space for alternative and avant-garde art in Japan in the 1960’s).