[KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films

[Earl Jackson]

Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries
than I do,
The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for
recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo
from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-)
thank you
best
ej
Earl Jackson
Chair Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Asia University
Professor Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz
Co-Director
Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute


On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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