Though the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival goes on until October 13, the Film Critics’ Workshop at the festival winds up today with three articles. The first covers a widely attended and much-discussed program of films and discussions dealing with the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and the subsequent nuclear disaster. The second and third are reviews of Mehran Tamadon’s Bassidji, a study of Iran’s guardians of morality, and Zhang Mengqi’s Self-Portrait with Three Women, a Chinese director’s interrogation of identity.
Above: 311 (Mori Tatsuya, Yasuoka Takaharu, Watai Takeharu, and Matsubayashi Yoju).
Facing the Earthquake: “Cinema with Us” at the Yidff
In reference to the festival’s strong local community base, “Cinema with Us” was the title chosen for the special program of screenings at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival on the topic of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. For the many audience members...
Above: 311 (Mori Tatsuya, Yasuoka Takaharu, Watai Takeharu, and Matsubayashi Yoju).
Facing the Earthquake: “Cinema with Us” at the Yidff
In reference to the festival’s strong local community base, “Cinema with Us” was the title chosen for the special program of screenings at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival on the topic of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. For the many audience members...
- 10/10/2011
- MUBI
For the first time this year, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, which began on October 6, is hosting a Film Critics’ Workshop. Six participants—three writing in Japanese, three writing in English—were chosen to watch, discuss, and write about documentary films under the mentorship of professional critics. Starting today and continuing for the next three days, the English-language texts from the workshop will appear in Notebook.
Here is the first batch of reports from one of the world’s outstanding documentary film festivals, by three writers who are relatively new to writing about cinema.
Stranger in My Own City: Sameera Jain’s My Own City
I am in my own city, but why do people keep gazing at me like a stranger? This is the constant incongruity haunting the experience of the leading character, a female driver in Delhi, of My Own City (Mera Apna Sheher).
The use of...
Here is the first batch of reports from one of the world’s outstanding documentary film festivals, by three writers who are relatively new to writing about cinema.
Stranger in My Own City: Sameera Jain’s My Own City
I am in my own city, but why do people keep gazing at me like a stranger? This is the constant incongruity haunting the experience of the leading character, a female driver in Delhi, of My Own City (Mera Apna Sheher).
The use of...
- 10/9/2011
- MUBI
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