Title History and memory : (for Akiko and Takashige) / Rea Tajiri, Akiko Productions ; written & directed by Rea Tajiri

Published [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, 1991 [San Francisco, California, USA] : [Kanopy Streaming], [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 33 min.)) : sound, color, black and white Summary Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri's family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past - especially a past that exists outside traditional historic accounts - Tajiri 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. Throughout, she surveys the impact of images (real images, desired images made real, and unrealized dream images). The film draws from a variety of sources: Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and sprits of the dead, as well as Tajiri's own intuitions of a place she has never visited, but of which she has a memory. More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history - questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost Notes Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1991 Streaming video Credits Cinematographers, George, Angel Shaw, Rea Tajiri ; editors, Rea Tajiri, Robert Burden Cast Noel Shaw, Sokhi Wagner Notes Soundtrack in English; closed captioned Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed August 18, 2020) Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Psychological aspects World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States -- Psychological aspects Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Psychological aspects Hawaii United States Genre/Form documentary film. Documentary films Educational films Nonfiction films Short films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Educational films. Nonfiction films. Short films. Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Films éducatifs. Films autres que de fiction. Courts métrages. Documentaires. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Form Streaming video Author Tajiri, Rea, screenwriter, film director, cinematographer, editor of moving image work George (Cinematographer), cinematographer Shaw, Angel Velasco, cinematographer. Burden, Robert (Film editor), editor of moving image work Shaw, Noel, actor Wagner, Sokhi, actor Akiko Productions, production company. Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.

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