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History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

1991 32min EN

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. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.

director: Rea Tajiri

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Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri

Director of Photography

Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri

Editor

Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri

Writer

Eric Davies

Eric Davies

Researcher

Angel Velasco Shaw

Angel Velasco Shaw

Director of Photography

Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri

Director

Noel Shaw

Noel Shaw

Additional Writing

Robert Burden

Robert Burden

Online Editor

Sokhi Wagner

Sokhi Wagner

Additional Writing

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