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Just a reminder that we will be screening a print of <i>Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress</i> this <div>Saturday night Oct 11th at 7:30 pm at Exit Art in NYC (475 10th ave at 36th street) </div><div>as part of Signs of Change Screening and Discussion Weekend (sponsored by Exit Art and 16Beaver). There are many other interesting films and videos screening as part of this so please check out the links below for more info.<div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><i>Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress / Sanrizuka: Dainitoride No Hitobito</i></div><div>(1971, 02:23:00 minutes, Shinsuke Ogawa/Ogawa Productions, Japanese with English subtitles, </div><div>courtesy of the Athénée Français Cultural Center Japan)</div><div><br></div><div>Introduced by <b>Sabu Kohso</b>, writer and activist, and <b>Barbara Hamme</b><b>r</b>, filmmaker.</div><div><br></div><div>"In Japan, guerilla film activity reached high intensity during the war (Vietnam).The use made of Japan as a conduit for Vietnam war supplies generated strong anti-government feelings and many 'protest films.'...It now saw such powerful films as the Sanrizuka series- three feature length films. The heavy air traffic through Japan-swollen by the war-hap prompted a 1966 decision to build a new international airport for Tokyo.The area chosen, Sanrizuka, was occupied by farmers who were determined to block seizures of their lands. For four years, the film maker Shinsuke Ogawa documented their struggle, which reached its climax in the third film, The Peasants of the Second Fortress. Here we see resistance turning into a pitched battle with riot police as farm women chain themselves to impoverished stockades, and students join the struggle for anti-government, anti-war motives. Ogawa, patiently recording the growth of resistance...achieved an extraordinary social document, and one of the most potent of protest films" - Erik Barnouw, <i>Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film</i>, (Oxford University Press, 1974)</div><div>Ogawa Productions was a Japanese filmmaking collective that was founded in the 1960’s, It was directed by Ogawa Shinsuke. After making films about the student movement, the collective moved to Sanrizuka to cover the struggle against the building of the Narita Airport. While there, they made eight films covering the struggle.</div><div><br></div><div>*Screening co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU in conjunction with The Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism Symposium and 1968: Then and Now Exhibition.</div><div><br></div><div>more about the weekend: <a href="http://www.16beavergroup.org/signsofchange.htm">http://www.16beavergroup.org/signsofchange.htm</a></div></div><div>more about Signs of Change: <a href="http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html">http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>