Fwd: YIDFF News September 21, 2005
Mark Nornes
amnornes
Wed Sep 21 09:22:40 EDT 2005
The new issue of Yamagata's e-newsletter has synopses of a set of new
documentaries. It's useful to see what everyone's talking about lately.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of them, yet. But of the bunch, the
three that are really creating buzz are the ones by Kobayashi, Watai,
and especially Haneda.
Markus
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> YIDFF News September 21, 2005
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> Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2005
> October 7 (Fri) - 13 (Thu)
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>
> ? HEADLINES ?
> 1. YIDFF 2005 Program Information..........New Docs Japan
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> 1. YIDFF 2005 Program Information..........New Docs Japan
>
> New Docs Japan is bigger this year with nine new films including
> those featured at international film festivals overseas and those
> that contemplate 'Japan today'. From films actively participating in
> contemporary Japanese society and changing/unchanging locations, to
> journalistic documentaries, personal documentaries, and those that
> pursue lush visuals and realism, this program features a vast array
> of unique characters and places, themes and styles.
>
>
> **Screening Lineup
>
> _Japan's Peace Constitution ("Eiga Nihonkoku Kenpo")_
> 2005 / Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Arabic / Color / Video /
> 78 min
> Director: John Junkerman
> Prompted by the dispatch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, the
> debate surrounding the constitution heated up in 2005. The movement
> in Japan towards a hasty revision is reconsidered from a broader
> global perspective. Who does a constitution belong to? In this
> collection of interviews, intellectuals from around the world talk
> about the significance of the peace constitution and the story behind
> its enactment.
> Date/Time: October 8 (Sat) 22:00-
> Venue: Muse 1
>
> _Ride Forward on Your Bicycle("Jitenshya de iko")_
> 2003 / Japanese / Color / Video (Original: 35mm) / 115 min
> Director: Sugimoto Nobuaki
> Pumyong is the salesman of a workshop for the handicapped. He pedals
> his bicycle around supposedly to advertise and sell merchandise made
> there, but . . . Along the way he drops by several places where he
> knows people: a takoyaki (grilled octopus dumplings) stand, a coffee
> shop, a workplace with fork lifts. He twists the staff members of the
> day care center House for Potatoes and Kids and the film crew around
> his little finger, and rides around Ikuno in Osaka indifferent to
> those around him.
> Date/Time: October 12 (Wed) 19:00-
> Venue: Muse 1
>
> _HOME TOWN--me & the Kobe Earthquake
> ("Boku wa Kobe umarede shinsai o shiranai")_
> 2005 / Japanese / Color / Video / 89 min
> Director: Motoki Takashi
> The Kobe-born director was living in Osaka when the Hanshin-Awaji
> Earthquake struck in 1995 devastating his hometown. in 2003, he
> returns after receiving a call from a high school friend, and comes
> face to face with the earthquake's legacy by filming present day Kobe.
> A frank depiction of the director's struggle with his inner self as
> he carries his camera through the city.
> Date/Time: October 12 (Sat) 16:30-
> Venue: Muse 1
>
> _Marines Go Home!--Henoko, Maehyang-ri, Yausubetsu_
> 2005 / Japanese, Korean / Color / Video / 135 min
> Director: Fujimoto Yukihisa
> Both Japan and Korea have U.S. military bases on their soil. Henoko,
> Okinawa continues a desperate campaign to block the construction of a
> U.S. Marine Corps heliport. A bombing practice site for the U.S. Air
> Force exists in Maehyang-ri, Korea. Yausubetsu, Hokkaido has the
> largest Self-Defense Forces maneuvers training ground in Japan. The
> film shows us a facet of Japan's militarization as it follows people
> in each region engaging in lifelong anti-military protests activity.
> Date/Time: October 10 (Mon) 18:30-
> Venue: Muse 2
>
> _GENKI Love("Mokkosu genki na ai")_
> 2005 / Japanese / Color / Video / 85 min
> Director: Terada Yasunori
> Severely physically-handicapped Kurata Tetsuya living in Kumamoto is
> unable to get married because his girlfriend's mother strongly
> opposes the union. After much effort he obtains his driver's license,
> and is determined to make the same effort to get permission to marry.
> The camera also exposes the characters of other unique residents such
> as a depressed pachinko addict who lives with Kurata.
> Date/Time: October 9 (Sun) 19:00-
> Venue: Yamagata Central Public Hall 4F
>
> _Into the Picture Scroll--The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa ("Yamanaka
> Tokiwa: Ushiwakamaru to Tokiwagozen haha to ko no monogatari")_
> 2004 / Japanese / Color / 35mm (1:1.37) / 100 min
> Director: Haneda Sumiko
> The film revolves around the picture scroll "Yamanaka Tokiwa," which
> is said to be the work of the painter Iwasa Matabei, who lived
> between the 16th and 17th centuries. The theme of the picture scroll
> is the tale of Ushiwaka-maru and his mother, Lady Tokiwa, which was a
> popular joruri puppet theater drama in early modern times. By
> introducing Matabei's background, light is shed on his state of mind
> as he painted the picture scroll. The rhythm of the joruri musical
> accompaniment and the editing is exquisite.
> Date/Time: October 9 (San) 21:00-
> Venue: Muse 1
>
> _Little Birds ("Little Birds-Iraku senka no kazaku tachi-")_
> 2005 / Arabic, English, Japanese / Color / 35mm (1:1.37) / 102 min
> Director: Watai Takeharu
> The director was already in Baghdad to cover the U.S. air raids when
> they began in March 2003. Shouting in front of a U.S. Army tank, he
> portrays the real situation that befell the Iraqi civilians--a woman.
> As the director shows how different families fall victim to heavy air
> raids and the horrors of war, he questions the "meaning" of war.
> Date/Time: October 11 (Tue) 20:00-
> Venue: Muse 1
>
> _Letter from Rokkasho Village no. 1~no. 3 ("Rokkasho mura tsushin")_
> Japanese / Color / Video
> no. 1: 2004 / 51 min no. 2: 2005 / 58 min no. 3: 2005 / 57 min
> Director: Kamanaka Hitomi
> In Rokkasho Village there is a reprocessing plant for nuclear fuel.
> Villagers and supporters engaging in a grassroots campaign around the
> nuclear facilities, people associated with the atomic industry--each
> face reveals facts about Japan's nuclear power plants and the
> Japanese people. The camera is in intimate contact with voices that
> go unheard in mainstream media.
> Date/Time: October 12 (Tue) 18:30-
> Venue: Yamagata Central Public Hall 4F
>
> _And Life Goes On("Watashi no kisetsu")_
> 2004 / Japanese / Color / 16mm / 107 min
> Director: Kobayashi Shigeru
> The film is set in the Second Biwako Gakuen, a historical institution
> for the permanently disabled. It sincerely portrays the life of
> people who have been living there for forty years, children who are
> incapable of spontaneous respiration and their families looking after
> them. Eye to eye with the camera, the appeal of each of them is amply
> brought out.
> Date/Time: October 10 (Tue) 21:00-
> Venue: Muse 1
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