Markus Nornes/ Sato Makoto Film Screenings & Talk on May 1 & 2

[Jonathan M. Hall]

The University of California Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies  
Presents:

Film Screening
(???????1992. 115 minutes

Sato Makoto Living on the River Agano  (??????)
1992. 115 minutes

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Thursday, May 1, 2008
7 PM-9 PM
142 Dwinelle Hall


Colloquium:
Subtitling Can be ?Disterbing?: Memories of Agano & Abusive  
Translation
with a screening of Sato Makoto, Memories of Agano, 2004, 55 mins

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Abe Markus Nornes
Screen Arts & Culture/Asian Languages & Cultures
University of Michigan

Friday, May 2, 2008
2:15 PM? 4:00 PM
142 Dwinelle Hall

In 1992, director Sato Makoto released ?Living on the River  
Agano?, a documentary closely examined the impact of Minamata  
Disease on a rural community in the mountains of Niigata.  It was the  
result of several years spent living with the old farmers in the  
area.  Ten years later, Sato and his cameraman returned to Niigata to  
renew their friendships with the farmers?at least those that had  
survived in the intervening years, and on this occasion, they made  
another film ?Memories of Agano? (2004).

These two films posed a range of challenges to the subtitler,  
beginning with the remarkably thick dialect of Niigata.  Sato wanted  
his sequel to steadfastly resist the reduction of these people to the  
Disease, deciding that his goals could be best served by forcing  
spectators to listen to how people spoke rather than simply what they  
were saying.

This posed a novel challenge to the English subtitler.  Nornes used  
Memories of Agano as an opportunity to bring his theorization of an  
"abusive subtitling" into thorough practice.  After screening his  
version of ?Memories of Agano?, Nornes will discuss his  
collaboration with Sato.

Ab? Markus Nornes is the author of Cinema Babel (Minnesota UP), a  
theoretical and historical look at the role of translation in film  
history.   He also wrote Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and  
Postwar Japanese Documentary and Japanese Documentary Film: From the  
Meiji Era to Hiroshima (both Minnesota UP).  He co-editedJapan- 
American Film Wars (Routledge), In Praise of Film Studies (Kinema  
Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs.  He is on the  
editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies in  
Documentary, and Mechadamia and has been co-owner of the internet  
newsgroup KineJapan since its inception.

Prints are provided courtesy of Siglo, Co. and the Japan Foundation

Co-sponsored by:
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Berkeley Film Seminar, and
Film Studies

The events are free and open to the public


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