shorts

[Julien Seveon]

In my eyes, as long as the director is Japanese (born in Japan) I would 
rather consider the movie as a Japanese movie. But maybe the people at the 
festival will not be of the same opinion.
Like you said, Derzu Uzala is not a Russian film because the actors are 
Russian. The sensitivity, the style is clearly Kurosawa's. By the way was 
the crew Russian too, or did Korosawa brought with him his own crew ?

Julien Seveon


>From: Chuck McMahon <chuckmcmahon at juno.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: shorts
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 02:27:18 -0400
>
> >I'm looking for some Japanese short films and documentary for a
> >festival that would take place in September in Paris.
> >I'm especially interested about modern (late 80's/90's) shorts.
> >Would you have any suggestion ?
>
>I am curious what is considered appropriate to this category because I
>have worked with several Japanese film-makers in New York recently who
>have been making short films in the English language. They frequently use
>US actors with English sounding character names, however, the scripts,
>the attitudes, the use of image and the d.p. are noticibly Japanese.  I'm
>not suggesting that these might be appropriate (I'm not suggesting
>they're not) -- however, I am intrigued by the question of what
>constitutes "Japanese" film.  For example, would one claim that
>Kurosawa's "Derzu Uzala" is not a "Japanese" film because it was filmed
>in Russian with Russian actors?
>
>My personal opinion seems to come from the same place that calls an
>artist working in Spain "El Greco."  Or Joyce working in Paris "Irish."
>There seems to be a cultural perspective that is frequently strengthened
>more than weakened by travel.  The artists in exile who write love paens
>to home, though perhaps, it may be as Whitman suggests, the lover who
>requites you kills the poem.  But I am curious as to what is academically
>considered "Japanese," or even what festival guidelines hold "Japanese"
>film to mean.
>
>chuck
>(on location this weekend
>with another "Japanese" short
>in New York)
>
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