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Filmless Festivals and Dragon Seals: Independent Cinema in China
(2019-04)
A followup to "Bulldozers, Bibles, and Very Sharp Knives: The Chinese Independent Documentary Scene" ten years later.
“Sanrizuka no Kowakuteki Kûkan ni te Jikan o Shikakuka Suru”
(2007)
Focussing on the films of Ogawa Productions, this article analyzes the ways Ogawa's collective theorized time and history through documentary filmmaking practice.
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 ...
Yamagata—Asia—Europe: The International Film Festival Short-Circuit
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
This essay critiques the uneven topography of the international film festival world.
“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?"
"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.
“Our Presence is Our Absence: History and Memory"
(1993)
Review of Rea Tajiri's History and Memory.