Sine目Me: Personal Documentaries from/on Japan
2020 · Curator-programmer · The Japan Foundation
A program of personal documentaries from Japan spanning five decades and various media, presented alongside diary and love-letter films by Kidlat Tahimik documenting his sojourns to and dialogues with Japan. Screenings and discussion invite a consideration of personal histories across different but intersecting cinematic cultures converging in formal expressions of the intimate scale of the self relating to the immediacy of places. Presented 17–21 February 2020.
Films
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974) · Kazuo Hara
Impressions of a Sunset (1975) · Shiroyasu Suzuki
Family Return (1985) · Hideto Ishii
Embracing (1992) · Naomi Kawase
The Cheese and the Worms (2005) · Haruyo Kato
Cloud, Insect, Wire, Fence (2014) · Mie Kurihara
Takadera mon Amour (1988–1991) · Kidlat Tahimik
Our Bomb Mission to Hiroshima (1995) · Kidlat Tahimik
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996) · Kidlat Tahimik
Some More Rice (2000/2005) · Kidlat Tahimik
Conversations and related events
The related conversation featured Mie Kurihara and Kidlat Tahimik.