History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige is a 1991 documentary film by Rea Tajiri. In her film, Tajiri recalls her family's experience of the American internment of the Japanese during World War II.

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
Directed byRea Tajiri
Produced byRea Tajiri[1]
Written byRea Tajiri
StarringNoel Shaw and Sokhi Wagner
Music byHarry Warren, Al Dubin, Warner Bros.
CinematographyGeorge, Rea Tajiri [1]
Edited byRea Tajiri, Robert Burden
Production
company
Akiko Productions
Distributed byWomen Make Movies, Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank
Release date
1991
Running time
32 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000.00 [1]

History and Memory explores the story beyond the recorded history of the internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans.[2] The film premiered at the 1991 Whitney Biennial exhibition, and has since been screened over 250 times.[1]

The Film

Tajiri presents collective history from mainstream mediums, whilst presenting her own history through the memory of real people.[3][4] To create her own personal history, Tajiri utilizes memory through her family members' experiences, along with photographs and 8mm footage.[2] She also uses mainstream mediums such as, newsreels, Hollywood feature film, and government propaganda.[5]

Awards
  • 1991: Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association (Whitney Biennial, World Premiere)[1][5]
  • 1992: Special Jury Prize: "New Visions Category" (San Francisco International Film Festival)[1][5]
  • 1992: Best Experimental Video (Atlanta Film and Video Festival)
  • Named one of the Top 100 American Films by Women Directors[1][5]

Screenings

All screenings below can be found on the Rea Tajiri Website.

2003-06:

  • Southern Connecticut State, Asian & Pacific Women Studies Conference
  • Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ICP, New York

1992-93:

  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • International Documentary Association Congress, Los Angeles, CA
  • Japan: Inside, Outside, In Between, Artists Space, NYC
  • National Educational Film & Video Festival, Oakland, CA
  • Relocations & Revisions: The Japanese-American Internment Reconsidered, Long
  • Beach Museum of Art
  • Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
  • University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
  • Human Rights Watch Festival, NY
  • Atlanta Film and Video Festival
  • Film &Video Festival, Toronto CANADA
  • Independent Eye, Broadcast KCET, Los Angeles
  • Rotterdam Film & Video Festival, Rotterdam NETHERLANDS
  • Berlin Film Festival, Berlin W. Germany
  • Saratoga Public Library, Saratoga NY
  • Videoscape, Asian Cinevision/ CUNY TV, NY
  • 50 Years of Remembrance: Center for New Television, Chicago, IL
  • Asian American Studies Presentation, Univ of Wisconsin Madison
  • Program for African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
  • Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  • A Question of Culture: Interrogating Identity, Madison Art Center, Madison WI
  • University of California Los Angeles, Asian American Film Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
  • Asian American Film and Video Festival, NAATA, Berkeley CA
  • The Asian American Experience, Walker Center, Minneapolis MIN
  • Visible Women, Cycles of Identity, Hallwalls Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo NY
  • Committed Visions, Museum of Modern Art, NY
  • Video and Sound: Video Viewpoints series, Museum of Modern Art, NY
  • Viper Video Festival, Switzerland
  • New York Center for Urban Folklore, NY
  • Women's Media Project, Texas
  • Women In the Directors Chair Festival
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
  • Finnish Film Festival
  • Asian American Women Filmmakers, Wesleyan University, CT
  • University of Chicago, Chicago IL
  • Society for Cinema Studies Conference, PA
  • Danish Film Inst Workshop, Kobenhaven, DENMARK
  • Territory Series, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin TX
  • European Media Arts Festival, Frankfurt Main GERMANY
  • University of Oklahoma, School of Art
  • Blackburst, Universitat Salzburg Inst for Publizistik/Kommunciations
  • Experimental 92 Filmclub Xenix,
  • University of Arizona, Phoenix
  • University of Hawaii at Maui
  • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Library, NY

1991:

  • Hawaii Intl. Film Festival
  • Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  • Columbia University, NY
  • Pearl Harbor Symposium, Japan Society, NY
  • The Hybrid State Films, Exit Art and Anthology Film Archives, NY
  • Recent Works by Rea Tajiri, SAW Video Gallery Co-Op, Ontario CANADA
  • Festival D'Ammiens, Ammiens FRANCE
  • Triply Split: Subject Bound Three Part, Long Beach Museum of Art
  • Independent Feature Project, NY
  • Syracuse University, NY
  • New Works by and About Asian American Women, LACE and Visual Communications,
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Cultural Transitions: Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago IL
  • AFI Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA
  • Viper Video Festival, Lucerne SWITZERLAND
  • Robert Flaherty Seminar, Aurora NY
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
  • Race to the Screen, The Euclid Toronto Canada

Reviews

References
  1. Elliot, Kate. "History and Memory: For Akiko & Takashige." Guerilla Gaze: Women of Color Shooting Back, Presented by Serendip Studio. Serendip, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2015
  2. Hulser, Kathleen. "Film Reviews: History and Memory Directed by Rea Tajiri." American Historical Review (1991): 1142-143. Print.
  3. Payne, Robert M. ""History and Memory" and "Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?"" Jump Cut May 1997: 67-76. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Jump Cut. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
  4. "History and Memory: On Visual Media and the Collective Memory of the Internment of Japanese Americans." (n.d.): n. pag. Reatajiri. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
  5. "History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige." WOMEN MAKE MOVIES. Women Make Movies, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
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