[KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching

Miryam Sas mbsas at berkeley.edu
Thu Apr 8 00:28:59 EDT 2021


These are awesome! Thank you so much, Mathieu, Aaron, Michael, Robert and
Katherine! Lots to explore...

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:50 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Aaron’s article is really good, in some ways better than the works
> themselves.  It clearly has a lot to do with the lack of a sense of danger.
>
> There is a Japanese guy who is in love with China and has a YouTube
> channel on the pandemic in Wuhan.
>
> https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM
>
> He’s painfully unaware of his own positionality so ends up discomfortingly
> compatible with the official line. They’d be great for that assignment.
>
> The most interesting Japanese work I have seen so far is a piece Michael
> Arnold posted about by pink directors Imaoka, Meike, and two others. The
> pandemic is more the context than the subject. The ending with Sano is
> great.
>
> https://youtu.be/gTwXSdtkytw
>
> Markus
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:11 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear All, dear Myriam,
>>
>> I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama
>> (『緊急事態宣言』) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama"
>> and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of
>> Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.
>> Here is a link for more informations :
>> http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/
>> All the best,
>>
>> Mathieu Capel
>> Tokyo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le jeu. 8 avr. 2021 à 10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a écrit :
>>
>>> I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first
>>> couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those
>>> already?
>>>
>>> http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> 2021/04/07 午後8:58、Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
>>> >のメール:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
>>> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
>>> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
>>> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
>>> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
>>> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
>>> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Miryam
>>>
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>>> Miryam Sas
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>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>>
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Miryam Sas
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