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<p class="ydp26d5f90dMsoNormal">Thanks for this, Markus.</p>
<p class="ydp26d5f90dMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I recently caught up with Byun’s first film on the ‘comfort women’ in
1995, <span lang="KO" style="font-family:Batang;mso-bidi-font-family:Batang;mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-language:FA">낮은</span><span lang="KO"> </span><span lang="KO" style="font-family:Batang;mso-bidi-font-family:Batang;mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-language:FA">목소리 </span><span>Naj-eun
mogsoli, that showed at the Dochouse here as part of ‘Open City’ festival.</span></p>
<p class="ydp26d5f90dMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I noticed the ‘thanks’ credit at the end to ‘Ogawa Pro’ and you have now
explained it.<span> </span>All I could do was to
search for Byun in the YIDFF database and was surprised to get a nil return in
either romaji of hangul. <span> </span>Indeed the
earliest Korean film in that database is 1996.<span>
</span>I guess, even then, there was more the Yamagata
selection committee than just Ogawa ?</p>
</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Roger<br></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, 27 September 2023 at 05:59:30 CEST, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpe9db1febyiv6681454701"><div dir="ltr">I'm in Newcastle for the launch of the extraordinary <a href="https://www.chinaindiefilm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chinese Independent Film Archive</a>. This is a multi-pronged archival project based in northern England that is collecting films, paper materials and various ephemera connected to the Chinese indies——which is to say material that no archive in the PRC would touch. Indeed, the government literally confiscated the previous attempt at an archive at the Li Xianting Film Fund.<div><br></div><div>They are also publishing a really impressive journal coming at the independent scene from various angles. Japanese film scholars need to check out the first issue, which looks at the many links between Japan and independent Chinese cinema. It's no exaggeration to say that Japanese connections, projects, travel, festivals, etc. etc. played a decisive role in inspiring and supporting a handful of young filmmakers to carve out a non-official production space in the PRC in the early 1990s. <a href="https://www.chinaindiefilm.org/issue-1-sino-japanese-connections-in-independent-film-cultures-1989-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Here is the Japan Connections issue, which was co-edited by Ma Ran and Akiyama Tamako.</a> All the issues are book length (!) and online, with the exception of the latest issue (on censorship, and deemed too sensitive to put online at this moment). </div><div><div><br></div><div>The current week-long launch in Newcastle includes a stunning exhibition of posters by designer/filmmaker Wang Wo. A dozen screenings and installations with artists present. And an amazing room devoted to Hu Jie. </div><div><br></div><div>You might have heard about Hu Jie or seen his films. Most recently, I noticed him in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/opinion/china-underground-historians.html?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New York Times last week</a>. Hu makes films that are as remarkably unpolished as they are powerful. The man is fearless. The exhibit displays his woodcuts, journals, film notes, a breathtaking relic from Lin Zhao (from his 2004 <i>Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul</i>).....and his camera. </div><div><br></div><div>There are two connections between this camera and Japan. </div><div><br></div><div>The first is that it's a Sony Hi-8 camcorder. The other is that it is likely (needs confirmation, but I'm sure this is the case) the camera that Nonaka Akihiro donated to a Beijing office he established in the early 1990s as an experiment in alternative journalism. Nonaka is the leader of Asia Press, <a href="https://www.asiapress.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">which is still around</a>. His idea back then was to exploit the new camcorders to get local camerapeople to shoot material that would then circulate around Asia media, both as footage or finished works. One of these cameras went to Beijing, where it was used by Feng Yan, Ji Dan and Hu Jie. All three became the first leaders of the new Chinese documentary. (Feng and Ji and in Newcastle; Hu Jie fell ill and sent his son in his place.) </div><div><br></div><div>This is one of those cameras. </div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:S8kjTMkl1Z65LBr0CpRR" alt="IMG_3969 copy.jpg" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" style="width: 392px; max-width: 800px;"><br></div><div><div>One of those cameras that seeds new cinema in other parts of the world, like the camera Joris Ivens left with the Communists after shooting The <i>400 Million.</i> Or the camera Chris Marker and Co. shot May 68 with, which was sent to Ogawa Pro in Sanrizuka, which in turn donated it to Byun Young-Joo who had just started her trilogy on comfort women. </div><div><br></div><div>Nonaka is an important figure in tv documentary in Japan. To learn more about him, check out <a href="https://www.chinaindiefilm.org/when-currents-collide-chinese-independent-cinema-and-japan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">this essay</a> by Akiyama and <a href="https://www.chinaindiefilm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Chinese-Independent-Documentarys-Hidden-History-With-Japan-An-In-Depth-Conversation-With-Producer-Journalist-NONAKA-Akihiro-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">this interview</a> by Tsuchiya Masaaki. </div><div><br></div><div>There. I made something of my jet lag!</div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="ydpe9db1febyiv6681454701gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img width="55" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wpadRRhHYSz0N5UbUflm2YEIclCcg0bTCCBEh81fkJ8isCMwomHpMoky49pEF7xzc4MTMR-PM" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small;"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:monospace;"><font color="#38761d" style="background-color: inherit;"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:monospace;">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:monospace;">School of Art & Design</span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><u><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168);">Homepage: <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><font color="#ffffff">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/</font></a></span><font color="#6aa84f"><br></font></u></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. 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