Ogawa Film This Saturday! plus more

[Jonathan M Hall]

Just a reminder that we will be screening a print of Narita: Peasants  
of the Second Fortress this
Saturday night Oct 11th at 7:30 pm at Exit Art in NYC (475 10th ave  
at 36th street)
as part of  Signs of Change Screening and Discussion Weekend  
(sponsored by Exit Art and 16Beaver). There are many other  
interesting films and videos screening as part of this so please  
check out the links below for more info.


Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress / Sanrizuka: Dainitoride No  
Hitobito
(1971, 02:23:00 minutes, Shinsuke Ogawa/Ogawa Productions, Japanese  
with English subtitles,
courtesy of the Athénée Français Cultural Center Japan)

Introduced by Sabu Kohso,  writer and activist, and Barbara Hammer,  
filmmaker.

"In Japan, guerilla film activity reached high intensity during the  
war (Vietnam).The use made of Japan as a conduit for Vietnam war  
supplies generated strong anti-government feelings and many 'protest  
films.'...It now saw such powerful films as the Sanrizuka series-  
three feature length films. The heavy air traffic through Japan- 
swollen by the war-hap prompted a 1966 decision to build a new  
international airport for Tokyo.The area chosen, Sanrizuka, was  
occupied by farmers who were determined to block seizures of their  
lands. For four years, the film maker Shinsuke Ogawa documented their  
struggle, which reached its climax in the third film, The Peasants of  
the Second Fortress. Here we see resistance turning into a pitched  
battle with riot police as farm women chain themselves to  
impoverished stockades, and students join the struggle for anti- 
government, anti-war motives. Ogawa, patiently recording the growth  
of resistance...achieved an extraordinary social document, and one of  
the most potent of protest films" - Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A  
History of the Non-Fiction Film, (Oxford University Press, 1974)
Ogawa Productions was a Japanese filmmaking collective that was  
founded in the 1960’s, It was directed by Ogawa Shinsuke. After  
making films about the student movement, the collective moved to  
Sanrizuka to cover the struggle against the building of the Narita  
Airport. While there, they made eight films covering the struggle.

*Screening co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Tisch  
Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU in conjunction with The  
Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism Symposium and 1968: Then  
and Now Exhibition.

more about the weekend:    http://www.16beavergroup.org/ 
signsofchange.htm
more about Signs of Change: http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/ 
exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html

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