Yamagata?

[Aaron Gerow]

> I wondered if anyone wanted to share any overview of the highlights  
> of Yamagata this year. I was very interested to see that the  
> competition-winning film was a québecois film about neo-liberalism,  
> Encirclement.

I did a review of the festival on my site:

http://www.aarongerow.com/news/yamagata_international_docu.html

I personally was unimpressed with Encirclement. It was a 160 minute  
film with literally wall-to-wall talking heads. The topic was  
interesting, but the filmmakers never made it clear in the film why we  
should watch this and not read a transcript. Personally, I thought it  
was a film quite outside the Yamagata tradition. That was part of my  
mild criticism of the Festival.

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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