Documentary Film Screening and Talk: "The Gaze of the Record"
Details
Documentary Film Screening and Talk: "The Gaze of the Record"
March 15 (Sat) and 16 (Sun), 2025
even supported by Choei Hands(4F Place Hands Building, 3-2-3 Kokubuncho, Aoba-ku, Sendai)
1,000 yen per program (Capacity limited, reservations prioritized)
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About the Screenings
"The Gaze of the Record" creates an opportunity to rethink the act of "recording" itself through documentary film screenings and talks.
In addition to works filmed locally in Sendai, such as "Oropo," which recalls the past from the present through records of the Sendai air raids, we will screen valuable past masterpieces, including "I Want the Sun," filmed with a tentative camera by a man documenting his wife with dementia, and "Grass-Cutting Song," which captures a woman living in Sanrizuka from an intimate perspective.
We also invite filmmakers Sachiko Iioka and Haruka Komori to join us in considering the meaning held by films about "recording" together with the audience.
Program
A
"Grass-Cutting Song" 1985 / 82 min
Director: Katsuhiko Fukuda
A masterpiece in which the director, having left the Ogawa Pro group that had been filming Sanrizuka for many years, records the life of Katsu Someya, who continued to oppose the airport construction, on 8mm film. The work is composed of 19 stories told by her, born in 1899.
B
"I Want the Sun" 1994 / 47 min
Cinematography/Lighting: Ikuru Watanabe
Composition/Editing: Makoto Sato
A work by lighting technician Ikuru Watanabe, who filmed his wife Tomiko, who was suffering from illness, and the people around her. Makoto Sato of "Living on the River Agano" composed and edited the vast amount of material shot on video and 16mm film, resulting in a unique and beautiful documentary film.
C
"Oropo" 2025 / 30 min
Director/Screenplay: Yusuke Fukuhara
A man wanders through places that appear in a collection of personal accounts of air raids he happened to pick up at a used bookstore. His own memories and the records of others intersect through recollection. A short film novel consisting of current city landscapes and readings.
"Slow Train Travel Diary" 2023 / 60 min
Director/Screenplay: Yusuke Fukuhara
A road movie/cine-essay that contemplates the future of how records from the past and we who receive them change, while traveling by slow train to places once seen in films, such as Sanrizuka, Hiroshima, and Minamata.
Timetable
March 15 (Sat)
11:00 A
12:50 B
14:00 C + Talk: Yusuke Fukuhara (Filmmaker) *Fully booked
16 (Sun)
13:30 C
15:30 B + Talk: Sachiko Iioka (Filmmaker) *Fully booked
17:40 A + Talk: Haruka Komori (Filmmaker) *Fully booked
Profiles
Sachiko Iioka
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1976. Filmmaker. Began filmmaking after studying under Makoto Sato at the Film School of Tokyo's documentary course. Directed "Oedipus Rex / Ku Na'uka" (00) and "Hinosato" (02). Cinematography credits include Yusuke Morii's "Route 29" (24), Kei Chikaura's "Remembering Every Night" (22), Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" (21), and Kyoshi Sugita's "Haruhara-san's Recorder" (21). In 2024, she co-organized the special screening "Connecting Days" with Kimi Idonuma, holding screenings in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
Haruka Komori
Born in Shizuoka in 1989. Filmmaker. Also active as a member of an art unit with Natsumi Seo and the group NOOK. Since 2011, she has continued to create works based on records of people's stories and landscapes in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, and various parts of the Tohoku region. Currently lives in Niigata. Representative works include "Trace of Breath" (16) and "Listen to the Air" (18). "Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions," released in 2019 as Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo, won the Special Jury Prize at the Sheffield DocFest and the Excellence Award for Cultural Documentary Film at the 2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Awards. Her latest released work is "Radio Kamishiro" (23).
Yusuke Fukuhara
Born in 1983 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, where he currently resides. Filmmaker. He documents local culture and the daily lives of the people who live there. His major directorial works include the films "A Thing in the House" (2018) and "Lots of Birds" (2022). He has also participated in works such as Haruka Komori's "Ask the Sky," as well as "Utauhito" (2011) and "Radio Shimokajiro" (2023). He received an honorable mention for the 6th Kotoba to Newcomer Award for his novel "A Room with Nothing." He planned and edited the record collection "A Film Seen at the Central Theater." Organizer of this screening event.
Organizer: Petra (Yusuke Fukuhara)
Grant: Sendai City Cultural Foundation
