Japanese Contemporary Documentary - Film Screening + Q&A (22 July 2021) and Lecture (29 July 2021)

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Accessible only to audience based in Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand.

VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING + Q&A WITH DIRECTORS

Thursday, 22 July 2021, 19.00 Bangkok & Jakarta | 21.00 Tokyo

Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions

二重のまち/交代地のうたを編む

(Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi, 2019, 79 minutes)

Set in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan, in the year 2031, Double Layered Town is a story by Seo Natsumi, planting seeds for new folktales born in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. The town that once stood and the one built after the completion of land elevation work─four travelers who know neither head for Rikuzentakata in 2018, listen to what the local people have to say, hold repeated dialogues and recite stories. The travelers find their own speaking voice through cycles of listening, reporting, and retelling. This is a record of a site where a small “succession” is initiated, captured with a delicate touch by filmmaker Komori Haruka.

Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo has been working as an art unit composed of videographer Komori and painter/writer Seo. They started their collaboration in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake. In 2012, they moved to Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture and have been working with the theme of documenting the local people’s narratives, daily lives and scenery of the area. In 2015 they established the organization NOOK with others active in Tohoku, in order to hand over the memories and documentations through art expressions.

Suitable for audience 13 years of age and above

Films are with English, Indonesian, Japanese, and Thai subtitles.

The Q&A will be in Japanese with English, Indonesian, and Thai interpreters.

LECTURE

Thursday, 29 July 2021, 19.00 Bangkok & Jakarta | 21.00 Tokyo

Image and Media - Archiving Disaster

Lecturer: Junko Takamori

Junko Takamori was born in 1984 in Kobe, Japan. She is a social phycologist, assistant professor of Aichi Shukutoku University. Her main research interest is Group Dynamics. Since 2010, she is a director of the Group for Continuous Documentation of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a group that edits and creates the memoranda of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. In 2014, she received Iue Culture Prize (Press & Publishing Section). From 2011 to 2014, she was in charge of the collecting, archiving and exhibiting the materials of the disaster at The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution. She has been researching through action research method how to create the space for sharing the experience of the disasters.

The lecture will be in Japanese with English, Indonesian, and Thai interpreters.