History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

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Short / Documentary
USA, 1991, 32 min

Directed by:

Rea Tajiri

Screenplay:

Rea Tajiri

Cinematography:

Rea Tajiri
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Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Drawing from a variety of sources - Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead - History and Memory offers a poetic exploration of recorded history and unrecorded memory. (Criterion)

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