Documentaries in Tokyo
Fujioka Asako
asakof
Tue Sep 7 11:45:29 EDT 2004
You've received Yamagata Doc Fest newsletters on this list, but here's a
reminder.
from Fujioka Asako
A four-week screening event called Documentary Dream Show is kicking off
tomorrow in Akasaka, at the Japan Foundation Forum. It will feature a large
part of last year's Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
programs, plus more--a total of 116 titles! Most of the films from around
the world will be screened with English and Japanese subtitles, though
unfortunately few Japanese works will have English. But you do get to see
lots of stuff from Asia, including the amazing nine-hour epic Tie Xi Qu
(West of Tracks), the Grand Prize winner at Yamagata as well as other
prestigious festivals around the world. It opened theatrically in Paris in
June and a whopping six thousand people have seen it there.
The programs to look out for are first and foremost our Okinawa special,
featuring Takamine Go's freehand with live musical accompaniment and
photographer Higa Toyomitsu's mesmerizing Nanamui. Also not to be missed is
Aoyama Shinji's documentary of Rinken Band singer Uehara Tomoko, _Song of
Ajima_, with English subtitles.
Some fiery Japanese works from the late 1960s-1970 will be shown in the
_Newsreel 1968_ program, and there's a day of new documentaries from Japan
on Sept 23.
Here is a complete list of the Japanese documentaries you can see in our
program:
September 10 (Fri) The Japan Foundation Forum
17:00 _Hibakusha--At the End of the World_ (Kamanaka Hitomi / Japan)
September 15 (Wed) The Japan Foundation Forum
19:30 _Song of Ajima_ (Aoyama Shinji / Japan/ ENG) + Talk
September 19 (Sun) The Film School of Tokyo (03-5205-3565)
13:00 _1975 Okinawa Summer_ (Tomimoto Minoru)
_The Life of Okinawa Part 1: Indigenous Island Fauna_
(Yoshida Yutaka)
15:00 _Yamangunutida_ (Jahana Yuzuru)
_Motoshinkakaranu_ (Nunokawa Tetsuro)
17:30 _The Voice of Okinawa_ (Mainichi Eiga)
_Dokuritsu shojo gurentai_ (Asato Mari / Japan) + Talk
September 23 (Thu-public holiday)
The Film School of Tokyo (03-5205-3565)
12:00 _Gobono no kanokabu -- Yamagata-ken Obanazawa-shi Gobono no
yakihata_ (Abe Yoko, Izutsu Momoko, Watanabe Tomofumi,
Muguruma Yumi / Japan)
_Sekigawa no shinaori - Yamagata-ken Atsumimachi Sekigawa no
juhifu_ (Imaishi Migiwa, Izutsu Momoko, Abe Yoko,
Muguruma Yumi / Japan)
14:20 _Horumaika_ (Hashimoto Shinichi / Japan)
16:20 _Picture Letter_ (Uchida Nobuteru / Japan)
18:20 _Momo Chenga_ (Iwasa Hisaya / Japan)
September 26 (Sun) The Film School of Tokyo (03-5205-3565)
11:00 _3rd--Unknown Commer House_
(Sanada Misao, Oki Hiroyuki, Maeda Shinjiro / Japan)
_3 rd Vol.2--2 Light House_ (Sanada Misao / Japan / ENG)
September 27 (Mon) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
19:00 _Haight-Ashbury_, _Columbia Revolt_,
_Black Panther--Off the Pig_ (USA)
_NO GAME_ (Oe Masanori, Marvin Fishman / USA / ENG)
September 30 (Thu) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
14:00 _A Report from Haneda_,
_Three Day War in Narita_ (ENG)
(Ogawa Shinsuke / Japan)
16:20 _'68 Okinawa--Japan_ (Isaka Yoshiyuki / Japan)
_Underground Square_ (Ouchida Keiya / Japan)
18:30 _Polluted Japan_, Free Kwangju_ (Maeda Katsuhiro / Japan)
+ Talk (Takagi Ryutaro)
October 1 (Fri) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
14:00 _Moriguchi Katsu's Works_ + Talk
16:30 _Nanamui Part 1 Ceremonial Songs_ (Higa Toyomitsu) +Talk
18:30 _Nanamui Part 4 Ceremonies_ (Higa Toyomitsu) +Talk
October 2 (Sat) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
13:00 _Records of the Battle of Okinawa--from the Collection of the
One-foot Film Movement (unedited version)_ (USA)
15:00 _War Stories Told in Shima Kutuba_ +Talk (Higa Toyomitsu)
18:00 _Chamberlain's Zushigame_ (Minato Chihiro / Japan) + Talk
October 5 (Tue) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
16:10 _Dandelion_ (Ren Shujian / Japan / ENG)
18:30 _Zarmina's Story / The Executed Afghan Woman_
(Tamamoto Eiko / Japan (Asia Press))+ Talk
October 6 (Wed) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
13:40 _A2_ (Mori Tatsuya / Japan / ENG)
18:30 _Documentarist Watai Takeharu_
(Watai Takeharu / Japan (Asia Press) )+ Talk
October 7 (Thu) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
19:00 _Tokyo: In Public_ (Jia Zhangke / Japan / No dialogue)
October 9 (Sat) Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
17:30 _Okinawan Dream Show_ (Takamine Go) + Talk
For details, see
http://www.athenee.net/culturalcenter/schedule/2004_09/yamagata2004/indexY.h
tml
or call 03-5362-0671
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Documentary Dream Show: Yamagata in Tokyo 2004
Schedule & Venues
Venue 1: The Japan Foundation Forum
September 8 (Wed) - 15 (Wed)
Venue 2: Athenee Francais Cultural Center
September 18 (Sat) - October 11 (Mon - public holiday)
Venue 3: The Film School of Tokyo
September 19 (Sun), 23 (Thu - public holiday), 26 (Sun)
*Admission prices (applies to all venues)
*One film - advance sales 1,000 yen, same-day sales 1,300 yen
*Three films - advance sales 2,700 yen, same-day sales 3,600 yen
*Ten films - advance sales 8,000 yen, same-day sales 10,000 yen
*Free Pass 15,000 yen
(limited to 100 passes, comes with YIDFF 2003 catalog)
*Athene Francais Cultural Center members, Film School of Tokyo
students: one program 800 yen (same-day sales only)
*Advance tickets are now on sale at Athene Francais Cultural Center,
Ticket Pia (P code 473-378) and ticket agencies in Tokyo.
*Tickets in the three film and ten film packs may be used by
filmgoers other than the purchaser. However, the Free Pass is valid
for one user only.
*Organized by the YIDFF Organizing Committee, Ace Japan, Athene
Francais Cultural Center, The Film School of Tokyo, and Cinematrix
*Enquiries: 03-5362-0672 (YIDFF Tokyo Office)
**Screening Programs
* International Competition and New Asian Currents
The quality of the works chosen for the International Competition
program is second to none! These gems were painstakingly selected
from amongst the 902 submissions received from all around the world
for the 2003 festival.
Since its inception in 1993 as a means of showcasing up and coming
filmmakers from across Asia, New Asian Currents has continued to
delight and stimulate audiences with the discoveries and dedication
of raw new talents who bring the realities of today's Asia directly
to the screen. This is where the future vanguard of filmmaking and
the truths of our time are found.
Together they provide a kaleidoscopic view of what is really going on
around the world in our era.
* American Dream or American Nightmare?
September 11 is almost upon us once again, and the influence of "
America" can be felt in many occurrences around the globe. What
meaning does the "American dream" have for those who live outside the
United States? This collection of works examines exactly what is
necessary to ensure that this dream does not become a nightmare for
the rest of the world. American documentary doesn't begin and end
with Michael Moore...
* Newsreel - 1968: They Called Them "Bullet Films"
Brought together by Jonas Mekas, radical filmmaking collective "
Newsreel" burst on to the scene in the United States in 1968 as a
force in the movement against the war in Vietnam. Its founding
members included Robert Kramer and Jon Jost, and the influence of its
activities spread across the globe, even leading to a partnership
with Ogawa Productions in Japan. Experience the avant-garde activism
of Newsreel in this current era of confusion, and journey back in
time to 1968.
* Okinawa - Nexus of Borders: Ryukyu Reflections
This collection of works, evoking the future of documentary through
their sojourns amidst the nexus of borders, includes several films
from YIDFF 2003's voluminous and substantial Okinawa retrospective as
well as new additions. An examination of and by Okinawa; an
archipelago of moving images devoted to these islands. The world that
unfolds within the screen belongs to all of us.
* The Stars of China's Era of the Auteur
In June of 2004, _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks_ was released in French
cinemas. The Le Monde newspaper lauded its achievements, and despite
its gargantuan length it is making a significant impact on the box
office. Consequently, its director Wang Bing will be producing his
next feature film with French funding. In recent years, many
exceptional filmmakers have emerged from China with works that
transcend the boundaries of fictional and documentary cinema, freely
traversing genres with an emphasis on auteurship. Jia Zhangke, Yu Lik
Wai, Zhang Yuan... Don't miss this opportunity to view the
extraordinary masterpieces of these master filmmakers with strong
ties to Yamagata.
* On the World Stage! More Conscientious, More Dynamic: Asia Press
International
Independent journalists and documentarians unaffiliated with major
media organizations are travelling to the far corners of the globe
and recording their diverse realities from the closest viewpoint
possible. This program introduces the latest works from members of
Asia Press International, a network of journalists which has remained
active since 1987, and explores the possibilities provided by
television broadcasting and internet media.
* Asia: Artistic and Experimental
The act of training a camera on a subject marks the beginning of a
struggle, as well as an experiment. Works made with ambitious designs
such as these are emerging in abundance on the Asian continent.
* New Docs Japan
The appeal of documentary is multi-faceted. There are numerous works
being produced which are full of new approaches and fresh appeal,
including many that don't make it to Yamagata. This section brings
together works that have received widespread praise, but are rarely
given the chance to be seen by the public at large.
**Mini programs
*Asia as Seen from Earthquakes - 9.21
*The Phenomenon Known as Jean Eustache
*Pasolini's Secrets
*10-minute Films Inspired by Herz Frank
*A Cinematic Tribute to Maeda Katsuhiro
*The Journeys of Rithy Panh: From Cambodia
*Thai Wonders Take Flight
Complete Time Schedule
*Venue 1: The Japan Foundation Forum (03-5562-4096)
www.jfforum.jpf.go.jp/index-j
September 8 (Wed)
11:30 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 1: Rust_ (Wang Bing / China)
16:00 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 2: Remnants_
19:30 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part3: Rails_
September 9 (Thu)
12:00 _Wellspring_ (Sha Qing / China)
_Hard Good Life_ (Hsu Hui-ju / Taiwan)
14:30 _A Short Journey_ (Tanon Sattarujawong / Thailand)
_Three-Five People_ (Li Lin / China, USA)
16:30 _Nee Engey--Where are You_ (R. V. Ramani / India)
19:30 _Basal Banar-Sacred Ritual of Truth
(Auraeus Solito / Palawan-The Philippines)
September 10 (Fri)
12:00 _Family Project: House of a Father_ (Jo Yun-Kyung / Korea)
_Purity_ (Anat Zuria / Israel)
14:30 _The Ballad of Life_ (Panah Barkhouda Rezaei / Iran)
_The Old Man of Hara_ (Mahvash Sheikholeslami / Iran)
_Her and Him Van Leo_ (Akram Zaatari / Lebanon)
17:00 _Hibakusha--At the End of the World_ (Kamanaka Hitomi / Japan)
19:00 _Crumb_ (Terry Zwigoff / USA)
September 11 (Sat)
11:00 _And Thereafter_ (Lee Hosup / Korea)
_The Shot Heard around the World_ (Christen Choy / USA)
13:30 _The War Room_ (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker /USA)
15:30 _Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr._
(Errol Morris / USA)
17:15 Special Talk Live
19:00 _Stevie_ (Steve James / USA)
September 12 (Sun)
11:00 _Gift of Life_ (Wu Yii- feng / Taiwan)
14:00 _Family Project: House of a Father_, _Purity_
16:30 _Wellspring_, _Hard Good Life_
18:30 _Homesick_ (Lam Chi-hang / Hong Kong)
_The Big Durian_ (Amir Muhammad / Malaysia)
September 13(Mon)
12:00 _Sand and Water_ (Shaheen Dill-Riaz / Bangladesh)
14:30 _The Maze of Lanes_ (Kalpana Subramanian / India)
_NEW (IMPROVED) DELHI--Director's Cut (Vani Subramanian / India)
_Night of Prophecy_ (Amar Kanwar / India)
17:00 _S21, the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine_ (Rithy Panh / France)
19:30 _Shepherds' Journey into the Third Millennium_
(Erich Langjahr / Switzerland)
September 14 (Tue)
11:00 _Ordo_ (Temirbek Birnazarov / Kyrgystan)
_Fuente Alamo--The Caress of Time_ (Pablo Garcia / Spain)
13:00 _Stevie_
16:00 _Hoop Dreams_ (Steve James / USA)
19:30 _American Dream_ (Barbara Kopple / USA)
September 15 (Wed)
10:45 _Domestic Violence_ (Fredric Wiseman / USA)
14:20 _DV2_ (Fredric Wiseman / USA)
17:30 _The Atomic Cafe_
(Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty / USA)
19:30 _Song of Ajima_ (Aoyama Shinji / Japan) + Talk
*Venue 2: Athenee Francais Cultural Center (03-3291-4339)
www.athenee.net./culturalcenter/
September 18 (Sat)
10:30 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 1: Rust_
15:10 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 2: Remnants_
18:40 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part3: Rails_
September 21(Tue)
14:20 _Chichi, the Monster_ (Lin Tay-jou / Taiwan)
_Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy_
(Rakesh Sharma / India)
16:10 _150 Seconds Ago_ (Batul Mukhtiar / India)
18:30 _Gift of Life_
September 22 (Wed)
14:30 _Oui Non_ (Jon Jost / USA, France, Itary)
16:50 _Number Zero_ (Jean Eustache / France)
19:00 _Little Folowers of Pier Paolo Pasolini_
(Alain Bergala / France) (scheduled)
_RoGoPaG_ (Pier Paolo Pasolini / France)
September 24 (Fri)
14:30 _10 Minutes Older: The Trumpet_ (Chen Kaige, Victor Erice,
Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismaki, Spike Lee,
Wim Wenders / Germany, UK)
16:40 _10 Minutes Older: The Cello_ (Bernardo Bertolucci,
Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiri Menzel,
Michael Radford,Volker Schlondorff, Istvan Szabo / Germany, UK)
19:00 _10 Minutes Older_ (Herz Frank / USSR)
_Flashback_ (Herz Frank / Latvia)
September 25 (Sat)
14:00 _Bad Company_, _Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes_
(Jean Eustache / France)
16:00 _Les Photos d'Alix_, _A Dirty Story_ (Jean Eustache / France)
17:40 _Number Zero_ (scheduled)
September 27 (Mon)
13:50 _Hunting Down an Angel or Four Passions of the Soothsayer Poet_
(Andrey Osipov / Rossia)
_Angelos' Film_ (Forgacs Peter / The Netherland)
16:20 _Raymundo_ (Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina / Argentina)
19:00 _Haight-Ashbury_, _Columbia Revolt_,
_Black Panther--Off the Pig_ (USA)
_NO GAME_ (Oe Masanori, Marvin Fishman / USA)
September 28 (Tue)
15:00 _What Am I, a Robot?_
_Paris in the Month of May_(France),
_Le soulevement dela jeunesse, Mai 68_
(Maurice Lemaitre / France)
17:00 _Haight-Ashbury_, _Columbia Revolt_, _Black Panther--Off the
Pig_
_NO GAME_
19:00 _Hanoi, Tuesday the 13th_ (Santiago Alvarez / Cuba)
_Accelerated Development--In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez_
(Travis Wilkerson / USA)
September 29 (Wed)
14:30 _Hanoi, Tuesday the 13th_, _Accelerated Development--In the
Idiom of Santiago Alvarez_
16:30 _What Am I, a Robot?_, _Paris in the Month of May_
_Le soulevement de la jeunesse, Mai 68_
18:30 _Raymundo_
September 30 (Thu)
14:00 _A Report from Haneda_, _Three Day War in Narita_
(Ogawa Shinsuke / Japan)
16:20 _'68 Okinawa--Japan_ (Isaka Yoshiyuki / Japan)
_Underground Square_ (Ouchida Keiya / Japan)
18:30 _Polluted Japan_, Free Kwangju_ (Maeda Katsuhiro / Japan)
+ Talk (Takagi Ryutaro)
October 1 (Fri)
14:00 _Moriguchi Katsu's Works_ + Talk
16:30 _Nanamui Part 1 Ceremonial Songs_ (Higa Toyomitsu) +Talk
18:30 _Nanamui Part 4 Ceremonies_ (Higa Toyomitsu) +Talk
October 2 (Sat)
13:00 _Records of the Battle of Okinawa--from the Collection of the
One-foot Film Movement (unedited version)_ (USA)
15:00 _War Stories Told in Shima Kutuba_ +Talk (Higa Toyomitsu)
18:00 _Chamberlain's Zushigame_ (Minato Chihiro / Japan) + Talk
October 4 (Mon)
14:20 _Dust Buries Sabuk_ (Lee Mi-young / Korea)
16:20 _Edit_ (Lee Chang-jae / Korea, USA)
18:30 _Gongbo's Happy Life_ (Ji Dan / China (Asia Press)) + Talk
October 5 (Tue)
14:10 _A Short Journey_, _Three-Five People_
16:10 _Jakarta Stock Shot: NO.7 (TRK-Jakarta Volunteers Team on
Humanity)_ (Ron Puyundatu / Indonesia)
_Dream Land_ (Tonny Trimarsanto / Indonesia)
_Dandelion_ (Ren Shujian / Japan)
18:30 _Zarmina's Story / The Executed Afghan Woman_
(Tamamoto Eiko / Japan (Asia Press))
_Divorce Iranian Style_
(Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini /UK, Iran) + Talk
October 6 (Wed)
13:40 _A2_ (Mori Tatsuya / Japan)
16:20 _Debris_ (Abdel Salam Shehadeh / Palestine)
_Title Deed from Moses_, _News Time_
(Azza El-Hassan / Palestine)
18:30 _Documentarist Watai Takeharu_
(Watai Takeharu / Japan (Asia Press) )+ Talk
October 7 (Thu)
14:20 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 1: Rust_
19:00 _Neon Goddesses_ (Yu Lik-wai / Belgium-Hong Kong)
_Tokyo: In Public_ (Jia Zhangke / Japan)
October 8 (Fri)
13:10 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 2: Remnants_
16:50 _Old Men_ (Lina Yang Tian-yi / China)
19:00 _In Public_, _Xiao Shen Going Home_ (Jia Zhangke / China)
October 9 (Sat)
12:00 _Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks Part 3: Rails_
14:40 _The Square_ (Zhang Yuan, Duan Jinchuan / China)
17:30 _Okinawan Dream Show_ (Takamine Go) + Talk
October 11 (Mon)
14:40 _The Land of the Wandering Souls_ (Rithy Panh / France)
16:50 _S21, the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine_
19:00 _Thirdworld_, _Mysterious Object at Noon_
(Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand)
*Venue 3: The Film School of Tokyo (03-5205-3565)
September 19 (Sun)
13:00 _1975 Okinawa Summer_ (Tomimoto Minoru)
_The Life of Okinawa Part 1: Indigenous Island Fauna_
(Yoshida Yutaka)
15:00 _Yamangunutida_ (Jahana Yuzuru)
_Motoshinkakaranu_ (Nunokawa Tetsuro)
17:30 _The Voice of Okinawa_ (Mainichi Eiga)
_Dokuritsu shojo gurentai_ (Asato Mari / Japan) + Talk
September 23 (Thu-public holiday)
12:00 _Gobono no kanokabu -- Yamagata-ken Obanazawa-shi Gobono no
yakihata_ (Abe Yoko, Izutsu Momoko, Watanabe Tomofumi,
Muguruma Yumi / Japan)
_Sekigawa no shinaori - Yamagata-ken Atsumimachi Sekigawa no
juhifu_ (Imaishi Migiwa, Izutsu Momoko, Abe Yoko,
Muguruma Yumi / Japan)
14:20 _Horumaika_ (Hashimoto Shinichi / Japan)
16:20 _Picture Letter_ (Uchida Nobuteru / Japan)
18:20 _Momo Chenga_ (Iwasa Hisaya / Japan)
September 26 (Sun)
11:00 _3rd--Unknown Commer House_
(Sanada Misao, Oki Hiroyuki, Maeda Shinjiro / Japan)
_3 rd Vol.2--2 Light House_ (Sanada Misao / Japan)
13:30 _The Circle's Corner_ (Lam Kin-hung / Hong Kong, USA)
_Red Flag Flies_ (Zhou Hong-xiang / China)
_Perpetual Motion_ (Sakhya Byamba / Mongolia)
16:00 _Gina Kim's Video Diary_ (Gina Kim / Korea, USA)
19:00 _Chlorine Addiction, ISLANDHOPPING_ (Tan Kai-syng / Singapore)
+ All talk shows will take place at the conclusion of the screening
+ Further guests are also scheduled to appear. Stay tuned!
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