[KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films

[Markus Nornes]

This is an amazing retrospective  with, count ‘em, 42 programs. The
programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is
sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through
line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting.
One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical
directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or
best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It
feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the
writing of film history at a fundamental level.

 In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is
well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended,
especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary
festivals in Japan.

Markus




On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a
> program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese
> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance
> to see some rarely screened works:
>
> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2
>
> Regards
>
> Matteo Boscarol
> Asian Docs
> - Documentary in Japan and Asia
> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com
> - Film writer for Il Manifesto
> http://ilmanifesto.it
>
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