feminist/visual/culture: A 30th anniversary celebration of women make movies

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

A videotape by Rea Tajiri
1991
32 minutes

Thomas 110
Friday April 5
 In the "Memory and Culture" screenings starting at
 2:00 P.M.
 This moving exploration of personal and cultural memory juxtaposes Hollywood images of Japanese Americans and World War II propaganda with stories from the videomaker’s family. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past, the artist blends interviews, memorabilia, a pilgrimage to the camp where her mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted pre-Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family’s house removed from its site. A haunting testament to the Japanese American experience.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
  • Flaherty Film Seminar
  • Yamagata Festival, Japan
  • Interview with Tajiri on her film YURI KOCHIYAMA: PASSION FOR JUSTICE
  • Bio of Tajiri from the elegant site of her most recent film Strawberry Fields
  • Interview in Felix  "Being sort of grouped together in the voices-from-the-margins-type show limits and generalizes the readings on our work and continues to set up a marginalized, out-of-the-mainstream status."
  • San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival on Strawberry Fields “Tajiri approaches her subject like a poet. She weaves together images and allows them to enrich one another in skewed and subtle ways as their resonances slowly emerge.” Caryn James, New York Times
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