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"The Theater of a Thousand Years"
(1997)
In the late 1980s, the documentary film collective Ogawa Productions exhibited their last major film in a highly unusual venue. A film about farming in village Japan, the collective teamed with Kansai area fans to build a ...
The Creation and Construction of Asian Cinema Redux
(2013)
This article looks back to the first book imagining an “Asian cinema,” which
was published in Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. It then works through a history of the
conception of Asian cinema, discovering fundamental ...
“The Postwar Documentary Trace: Groping in the Dark"
(2002)
An historiography of left-wing documentary film practice and theory, focussing on the early 1970s and asking "What happened?"
"Combat Film Report—No. 722"
(Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994)
Short catalog analysis of an American Combat Film Report, the equivalent of a visual memo at the front for officers in Washington.
“Interview with Helen Von Dongen”
(2001)
Interview with Joris Ivens' collaborator, Helen von Dongen.
“April 27 and the Birth of Chicago Newsreel, an Interview with Peter Kuttner”
(2003)
Interview with co-founder of Chicago Newsreel, Peter Kuttner.
"Nippon Connection's Anti-Canon"
(2006)
Article about the annual German film festival of Japanese moving image media.
"Toward an Abusive Subtitling: Illuminating Cinema’s Apparatus of Translation"
(1999)
Inspired by amateur anime subtitling collectives, this essay looks at the history of subtitling to critique conventional approaches and propose an "abusive" approach from a profoundly different notion of fidelity.
“Ogawa Puro, Sono Undo to Shite no Eiga ni Okeru Ongakusei” [Ogawa Pro and the Musicality of Movement Cinema]
(2010)
Drawing on Jane Gaines theory of political mimesis in documentary, this article argues that Ogawa's Sanrizuka Series suggests a more powerful way to conceptualize the mimetic qualities of activist cinema would be "musicality."