[KineJapan] Fwd: Talk: Ayelet Zohar, The Palestinian-Israeli conflict on documentary Japanese films @ at the MJHW (zoom), Feb. 3rd, 7:00pm (JST)

[Aaron Gerow]

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> Dear all,
> Please join us for the next meeting of the Modern Japan History Workshop on Monday, February 3rd at 19:00 JST.  Our presenter this month will be Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv University), who will present her work on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Japanese documentary films (details below).
> This month's session will be held online through Zoom, and can be accessed using the following sign-in information.
> https://rikkyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/84486358218?pwd=Rtx7qxaZrK7DhBppdqSH8YvTRGEWjA.1
> Meeting ID: 844 8635 8218
> Passcode: 066748
> The workshop is open to all, and no prior registration is required.
> Please direct any questions to Joelle Nazzicone at joelle.nazzicone at gmail.com <mailto:joelle.nazzicone at gmail.com>.  We hope to see you there!
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> PFLP, Out of Place, Ghada, Nakba, and Tokyo Reels: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Japanese Documentary Films
> Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv University)
> The Israeli Palestinian conflict is not a foreign resident in the Japanese discourse. It is dwelling in numerous films since the 1970s, embarking during the post 1970s ANPO demonstrations and the escape of Shigenobu Fusako (重信房子b. 1945) to Beirut on that year. Since then, numerous films have deleved into the conflict, the tragedy, the drama, the trauma, the resilience and persistence of the Palestinian people, from multiple points of view.
> In my presentation, I will review several documentary films, trying to answer the question: what makes this conflict so significant and magnetizing to Japanese artists and the public? I will attempt to draw lines between Japanese self-criticism towards attitudes of Embracing Defeat in the immediate postwar era; Indicating the romantic attraction and admiration of the Japanese Red Army to radical Left intellectuals; pointing at the sense of the underdog (hōgan biiki 判官贔屓), in reference to Yoshitsune.
> The presentation will look into Adachi Masao’s classic PFLP (1971) filmed in Beirut; Horikawa Ryūichi’s Nakba (2006), created over a period of 26 years, following two Palestinian villages that had become refuges in 1948; Sato Makoto’s Out of place (2004), that looks into the life of Edward Said, along conversations with Palestinian- Israelis; Furui Mizue’s Ghada: Song of Palestine (2005), a film that engages with life and struggle in Gaza under the occupation of Israeli military in the 1990s; and finally, a collection of short documentary films assembled and presented for the first time in Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany), under the title Tokyo Reels (2022).
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> Ayelet Zohar, PhD MFA
> דר' אילת זהר
> د. أيلت زهر
> アイェレット・ゾーハー 博士　准教授
> 爱丽特博士  副教授
> (Pronouns: she/ her)
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> Senior Lecturer 
> Art History Department
> The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts
> Rm. 110, Mexico Bldg.
> Tel Aviv University
> Tel Aviv 6997801
> Israel
> Tel: +972-54-9208349
> Email: azohar at tauex.tau.ac.il <mailto:azohar at tauex.tau.ac.il>   
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> President 2023-2025
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>  Selected publications on Academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> https://telaviv.academia.edu/AyeletZohar
> Website for artworks: http://ayeletzohar.blogspot.co.il/

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