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HKW | Tōhoku Trilogy - Storytellers
Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Ayako Saito, Sakai Ko, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita
Sat, May 31, 2014
Admission: single ticket: 8€/6€, day ticket: 18€/16€
With simultaneous translation German and English
Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Storytellers 2013, Photo © silent voice
From 2011 to 2013, Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Sakai Ko conducted a series of conversations with residents of te northern region of Tōhoku, Japan, an area heavily hit by both te earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.
Their research resulted in three films which have since come to be known as te Tōhoku Trilogy: Nami no oto (Te Sound of te Waves, 2011), Nami no koe (Voices from te Waves, 2013), and Utau hito (Storytellers, 2013). In te films, inhabitants of te region face te camera in medium close-up to deliver recollections of te earthquake and tsunami, mukashi banashi (folk tales of rural life often featuring talking animals), and general reflections on life in Tōhoku. Centering on te rich folk tradition of storytelling, te films explore te complicity established in te encounter between speaker and listener. They document how a single event may live a thousand lives through te act of telling, and how different voices—te engines of storytelling—can render that one event into similar yet unique pieces of storytelling. Te trilogy proposes storytelling as a transformative and empowering process, bearing social and political implications in such contexts as this recently ravaged region.
Each film screening is followed by a conversation with te filmmakers, with film curators Koyo Yamashita and Eduardo Thomas, and film theoritician Ayako Saito.
Storytellers Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke (Japan 2013), 120 min
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Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Ayako Saito, Sakai Ko, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita
2014, Sat, May 31
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Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Ayako Saito, Sakai Ko, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita
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