Japanese

Perspectives Japan


October 9–12   [Venues] Forum 4

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Five dynamic films that defy convention will be screened in Perspectives Japan, in a display of the powerful contemplation and fresh vibrancy being explored in Japanese documentary filmmaking. Okinawa: The Afterburn offers deep insight in an unflinching look at Okinawa’s ongoing post-war era. THE COCKPIT provides the audience with a front-row seat to the process of words and rhythms being created in the single room of an apartment. Under the Cherry Tree weaves together stories told by residents of a public housing complex, while the film PYRAMID: Kaleidoscope Memories of Destruction, shot on 8mm film, bestows a universality to the landscape of Saitama Prefecture’s Chichibu region, and Voyage merges the techniques of both narrative and documentary filmmaking to offer a slice of reality.

THE COCKPIT  Dir: Miyake Sho / 2014 / 64 min
Okinawa: The Afterburn  Dir: John Junkerman / 2015 / 148 min
PYRAMID: Kaleidoscope Memories of Destruction  Dir: Sasakubo Shin / 2015 / 50 min
Under the Cherry Tree  Dir: Tanaka Kei / 2015 / 92 min
Voyage  Dir: Ikeda Sho / 2015 / 60–70 min