Chicago screening: Anti-U.S. Bases in Asia Documentary Film - Mon. 7pm in Pick Hall

[Jonathan M. Hall]

When I was in Tokyo most recently I remember seeing a report about  
this film screening at the United Nations in NYC. (I may have the  
facts wrong, please be warned.)  Apparently, the Yokota parents  
travelled to the UN as well, where they visited the Italian  
representatives to the UN in hopes of linking their protest to the  
reputed  abductions of Italians by North Koreans in the 1970s. This  
is the first time, in my understanding, that the abduction issue has  
been so explicitly framed  transnationally (it has always been  
international). We might consider how the film might have contributed  
to this process--the idea of film as offering better avenues for  
cross-cultural activism. etc.
jonathan


>
>
> In any case, what I really want to mention is that the issue of  
> Japanese abductess which Mr. Petri alludes to is now addressed in a  
> Jane Campion-produced, Japanese language, documentary called  
> Abduction: The Megumi Yokota story, which will open next week in  
> Japan. I thought it was superbly made and extremely powerful.
>
> rob schwartz
>
> On 11/19/06, Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there any need for this? Jonathan just asked for people's  
> reactions to the documentary. I don't think he intended to cause a  
> dispute.
>
> Jim Harper.
>
> Armand Petri < armandnjosie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Actually I feel very sorry for the North Korean people. Just  
> reading about and looking at  photographs and at the Satellite  
> images of North Korea I would think you would be more inclined  
> toward helping you neighbor out of the hell that has been created  
> by a very sick and evil ruler. I have read a considerable amount of  
> history of Korea, and have come to the conclusion that your hero  
> Kim Il Sung is a throwback to the 7th Century.
>
>
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