Director
Edo Avant-Garde reveals the pivotal role Japanese artists of the Edo era (1603 – 1868) played in setting the stage for the “modern art” movement in the West. During the Edo era, while a pacified Japan isolated itself from the world, audacious Japanese artists innovated stylization, abstraction, minimalism, surrealism, geometric composition and the illusion of 3-D. Their elegant originality is most striking in images of the natural world depicted on folding screens and scrolls by Sotatsu, Korin, Okyo, Rosetsu, Shohaku and many others who left their art unsigned.
Director
The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.
Director
Things Left Behind explores the transformative power of 'Hiroshima,' the first major international art exhibit devoted to the atomic bomb. The exhibition, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, featured 48 large-format color photographic prints of clothing once worn by those who perished in the atomic bomb, taken by renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. Ishiuchi brought the garments--still colorful and fashionable nearly seven decades later--out of permanent storage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial archive and photographed them in the light, to trace the spirits of those who once wore them. The photographs, exhibited without any identifying caption, mutely solicited viewers to imagine or divulge a narrative, and unlocked a wealth of secrets and memories from those who encountered them.
Producer
ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.
Director
ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.
Translator
특별한 꿈 없이 평소 잠자기를 좋아하는 스물 네 살 청년 '니무라 유지'. 물수건 세탁 공장에서 임시직으로 일하게 되면서 그는 자기보다 세 살 많은 '아리타 마모루'와 친해지게 된다. 얼마 후 정식직원으로 채용하고 싶다는 사장의 제안에, 뭐가 더 좋은 건지 헷갈려 하자 마모루는 충고가 필요할 때마다 그에게 특이한 사인을 해주겠다고 한다. 엄지 손가락을 가슴 쪽으로 향하면 '기다려라', 엄지와 검지를 바깥 쪽으로 향하면 '가라'는 뜻으로. 그 후 니무라는 마모루 집에 자주 놀러가 그가 키우는 해파리를 좋아하게 된다. 볼 땐 반짝반짝 빛나서 아름답지만 손을 대면 위험한. 그런 어느 날, 사장이 마모루 집을 방문한 뒤 마모루는 해고당한다. 한편 마모루를 해고시킨 사장에 대해 화가 나있던 니무라는 사장이 빌려간 자기 음악 CD를 돌려받기 위해 쳐들어갔다가 시체가 된 사장을 발견한다. 당황한 그는 마모루의 집에도 찾아가고 전화도 해보지만, 연락은 되지 않고. 누군가의 신고로 마모루는 잡혀간다. 그리고 감옥에 간 지 얼마 후 마모루는 '가라'는 손가락 사인을 남긴 채 자살한다. 유일한 벗이었던 마모루를 잃은 니무라. 언제 올지 모를 밝은 미래를 향해 가야할 지 기다려야 할지...
