HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE

Year1991 Duration32 min. DirectorRea Tajiri
Avant-garde and captivating, this film is a poetic reflection on recorded history and spoken memory, on the writing of history and counterpart: family stories. Rea Tajiri’s family were among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans incarcerated after the Pearl Harbor attack –a fragment of (intra)history obliterated in official audiovisual records.
Festivals
Whitney Museum biennal

Flaherty Film Seminar

Yamagata Festival, Japan

Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri is a Japanese American video artist and filmmaker. She was raised in Chicago before leaving home to attend the California Institute of the Arts. After graduating, Tajiri worked as a producer on various film and video projects in Los Angeles and New York, gaining international acclaim for her 1991 film History and Memory: for Akiko and Takashige, which premiered at the 1991 Whitney Biennial In 1993, Tajiri collaborated with Pat Saunders on production of the documentary Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice, about the Nisei Japanese American human rights activist.
Filmography
History and Memory: for Akiko and Takashige (1991)
Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice (1994)
Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
Organized by
NICDO
With the aid of
Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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