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(another chance for extra credit)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th:
/MEDIUM AND MEMORY: Video, Time, and Personal Recall/
(As always, in room 229 at 7pm)

Rea Tajiri
History and Memory
1991, color and b&w, 32 minutes
Framed by the haunting facts of the post-Pearl Harbor Japanese
internment camps (which dislocated 120,000 Japanese Americans during
World War II), Tajiri creates a version of her family's story through
interviews and historical detail, remembering a time that many people
would rather forget. This video surveys the impact of images (real
images, desired images made real, and unrealized dreams) on our lives,
drawing from sources such as Hollywood, U.S. Dept. of Defense films,
newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead. Relics of
the camps, contrasted with human efforts to forget their existence,
create a sense of taxonomic insistence that these camps were indeed
real.

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Shigeko Kubota
My Father
1975, b&w, 15 minutes
In this classic personal elegy, Kubota mourns her father's death and
recounts the last days of his life. Reflecting on Kubota's use of the
video medium, the television emerges as the link between Kubota and
her father, with the melodramatic crooning of Japanese pop singers
providing a backdrop for Kubota's real-life tragedy.

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Wim Wenders
Notebooks on Cities and Clothes
1989, color, 35mm film, 79 minutes
This documentary about fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto is also an
examination of the differences between video and film, and their
different capacities for enabling understanding of time, craft, and
the body. A filmmaker tries to understand a form he never works in -
fashion design - as he explores a new instrument in his own toolbox -
the Sony Handicam.

posted by ryan griffis at 12:22 PM Sunday, September 9, 2007

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