AsianDocs

Documentary in East and Southeast Asia

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

mountains, snow, gathering chestnuts, folk practices, zenmai...and how the construction of a dam erased everything.

A longer review of 越後奥三面 山に生かされた日々Echigo Okumiomote: A Traditional Mountain Village (Himeda Tadayoshi, 1984)

https://t.co/OCgmJrS9LY

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

I'm not creating a specific account for Asian Docs on the other place (not yet at least), everything will be transferred here:

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

Saving a Dragonfly (Hong Daye, 2022)
https://t.co/eV2KxNiMwu

[出口出 @matteoboscarol]

teaser trailer for Oda Kaori's latest work, Underground アンダーグラウンド. The film will have its premiere at the @tiff_english next week:

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

what a concentration of talents

Jurors at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2007:

Pedro Costa
Hasumi Shigehiko
Alanis Obomsawin
Kidlat Tahimik
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

映画をつくる女性たち Women Make Films (Hiroko Kumagai, 2004)

Documentary commemorating the 15th Tokyo Int. Women's Film Fest, the film follows the history of women directors in Japan. With Takano Etsuko, Sakane Tazuko, Haneda Sumiko.
at @tiff_english
https://t.co/5VHkhg9K8U

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

these are the films available online:
Spring Tide (Lina Yang)
Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia (Pan Lu, Yu Araki)
Nostalgia (Shu Haolun)
No. 89 Shimen Road (Shu Haolun)
Export My love (Li Jinglin)
Shape (Linlin ZHU) Aïeules (ZOU Yang)

[Chinese Independent Film Archive @CIFA_UK]

We are pleased to publicise the new "Personal Cinema from China" series, including three screenings at the ICA in London - all of films by Yang Lina - and seven films streaming online, between now and December https://t.co/oE5TBDelfv

[Chinese Independent Film Archive @CIFA_UK]

We are pleased to publicise the new "Personal Cinema from China" series, including three screenings at the ICA in London - all of films by Yang Lina - and seven films streaming online, between now and December https://t.co/oE5TBDelfv

[民族文化映像研究所 @mineiken]

山に生かされて来た集落、奥三面がダム建設の為に移住をしました。多くは下流の村上市へ集団移住となり、街での暮らしへと変化を強いられました。
山での生活誌を記録した映画の続編は、少し社会派ドキュメンタリーの要素も秘めながらも、淡々と生活の変化を見つめました。
https://t.co/oWkUNlC1kV

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

IDA Member Spotlight: Asako Fujioka

https://t.co/xbT4mXMggu

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

PROGRAM
Tangling Lines of Sight: Narratives and Documentaries
at Image Forum Festival 2024
https://t.co/P6PMdtHXQE

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

"Documentaries raise questions about conventional accounts of history and give rise to polysemic interpretations in those who view them. The “efficacy” that must now be found in documentaries is not only conveying the 'truth', but also breaking down what is conveyed as 'truth'
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[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

and demonstrating the possibility of multiple other 'truths'. Focusing on the theme of 'Tangling Lines of Sight: Narratives and Documentaries' at Image Forum Festival 2024 we search for moving image expression as a point where several different truths are tangled together...
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Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice

[出口出 @matteoboscarol]

Reassessing the human: three experimental documentaries by Oda Kaori
https://t.co/xQoqQbMCGu

[Filmoteca Catalunya @filmotecacat]

Qui és Sumiko Haneda?

Irene González-López, investigadora a @KingstonUni i col·laboradora del cicle, ens ho explica en poc més de 2 minuts!

[AsianDocs @Asian_docs]

insightful and well crafted
"Filmed in Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is film centred upon the abandoned Permanent International Fair in Tripoli, designed by the Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s"
watch it (legally) here:
https://t.co/H0ikX0Kr81

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fascinating

[Collaborative Cataloging Japan @CollabJapanFilm]

From today! 📽️

Our October Members’ Viewing features documentation by @konakajimavideo of two major displays of global technology of the 1960s, Montreal’s Expo ‘67 and Osaka’s Expo ‘70 (also known as banpaku).

Read the introduction & watch the film: https://t.co/y8OK6bltnD

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Solveig Qu Suess, Holding Rivers Becoming Mountains
https://t.co/SaX5D0mzbW

[出口出 @matteoboscarol]

Hayachine no fu' ('Oda al Monte Hayachine'). Capturando el flujo siempre cambiante de la historia:
https://t.co/NWbIEAHTY9