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Histories: An Evening with Rea Tajiri

Presented by Scribe Video Center at Prince Music Theater - Independence Black Box

June 7, 2010

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Rea Tajiri's award winning films explore the psycho-spiritual repercussions of political histories within families while interrogating mainstream media representations of Asians and Asian Americans. Screening: (Bridge) "River is Remembering" (2009, 10 min, work in progress). In this new work, a meditation on landscape as history, Tajiri explores the ways in which landscape, memory and history reverberate in Lordville, a small New York Delaware river town. Strawberry Fields (1998, 86 minutes) [excepts]. Set in 1971, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the film tackles the minefield between cultural history and personal memory. Little Murders (1998, 20 min). A darkly comic musical about the mystery of death, communication of spirits, and the redemption that comes from knowing the truth. History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991, 31 min). Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. 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.