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★★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2024
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One of a pair of documentaries exploring the experiences of Japanese women in the 1970s. A writer, translator and filmmaker who lived between the US and Japan, Michishita produced some of the first translations of American second-wave feminist thought into Japanese. Yet Liberation Within My Family seeks articulations of feminist consciousness and solidarity from within Japan itself, exploring the effects of illness on the distribution of labour and care within the family of her older sister Tazuko.
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★★★★★ Watched 23 Nov 2024
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Richard Serra’s Television Delivers People (1973) is a spare critique of mass media’s circuits of consumption and the frenetic visualities of television. Structured as a series of second-person aphorisms scrolling as if on a teleprompter, the text’s blunt address to the viewer parodies the interpellatory tactics of television advertising while attempting to reveal rather than conceal the hypnotic workings of the apparatus on its subjects.
Serra’s visit to Japan to participate in the 1970 Tokyo Biennale…
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★★★★★ Watched 18 Aug 2023
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"A sense of color reminiscent of Godard's Pierrot le Fou, action such as gunfights and burning cars, a philosophical narration spoken over the melody of Bach, and an adventure in sexuality and platonic love." (Akihiro Suzuki)
When good-for-nothing Utamaro rescues the lovely Giko from a police officer on her tail, the two embark on a doomed road trip filled with politics and surreal poetry. Carried by sparkling performances from its two young stars, Bye Bye Love…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 24 Mar 2022
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Yukie Saitō’s Benighted but not Begun/Yukikuredomo machiakazu (22mins, 1994) centers on the violent and abusive relationship of a couple. Repeated acts of physical and psychological torment reveal through their repetition the problematic power dynamics subsumed under the appearance of normalcy in romance and daily life. [Wakae Nakane]
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