PS: Ogawa Film This Saturday! plus more

[Jonathan M Hall]

Dear KineJapanners,

While I certainly wish we we screening this film on the West Coast,  
we are not.

I'm sorry I forwarded an email and clipped off the sender's data.   
The email was from Dara Greenwald, one of the event organizers:  
dara at DARAGREENWALD.COM
Apologies to Dara.

Check out the link of the SIGNS OF CHANGE series ... It looks great  
to me.

Mea culpa,
Jonathan




On 9 Oct 2008, at 11:58, Jonathan M Hall wrote:

> 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 Ath?n?e Fran?ais 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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