Kawase Naomi's site

[Rodica-Livia Monnet]

Wow,Markus,fantastic info.Thank you so much.I was just reading your 
article,"The Postwar Documentary Trace", in Positions,volume 10,no.1,spring 
2002,Special Issue:Open to the Public;Studies in Japan,s recent past,which is 
great.KineJapaners who havent'e seen Markus's reacent article should read 
it,it's a must.I knew of course about Ogawa Pro,have seen Barbara Hammer's 
Devotion,etc.,and have seen info on Video Act on Kinema Club,but didn't know 
about Pandora.Will look up the website.anything on novelizations?Have read 
Kawase's.Many thanks again to Markus.Livia En réponse à Mark H Nornes 
<amnornes at umich.edu>:

> Livia asked about
> 
> ---collectives:  The most famous of them has been Ogawa Productions,
> which
> folded back in the 1980s but is something of the test case against
> which
> all other attempts are measured. [There are other prominent examples
> from
> further back: Iwanami's Blue Group (Tsuchimoto, Kuroki, Higashi,
> Ogawa,
> others), Nichidai's Eiken (Adachi and others), Prokino back in the
> late
> 20s/early 30s, countless eiken over the last 70 years or so.] The
> recent
> ones that are interesting are Hara Kazuo's Cinema Juku and Tsuchiya
> Yutaka
> et al's Video Act. Hara's group produced one feature length 16mm
> documentary, and held all sorts of formal meetings across Japan.
> Typically, they would invite one or two famous film figures and then
> spend
> a weekend talking about whatever seemed pressing.  They also produced
> quite a few substantial pamphlets. I'm not sure if they're still up
> and
> running. Tsuchiya and other video activists created Video Act! to run
> screenings and provide a web-based route for the distribution of
> independent work (the address is on Kinema Club). They distribute
> everything from Tsuchimoto's famous Minamata documentaries to little
> known
> efforts by smaller collectives.
> 
> ---Anyone like Women Make Movies?  Yes, Pandora. This is an outfit run
> by
> Nakano Rie. They distribute and produce films, many of the
> controversial.
> They also publish an impressive array of books that range from solid
> film
> histories to non-film books on topics relating to the women's
> movement.
> They are a very impressive outfit. Check out the website and you'll
> see
> what I mean: www.pan-dora.co.jp
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
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