Scribe Video Center Presents a Body of Work Retrospective with Rea Tajiri
May 12, 2021 7:00 PM
Cost: $5
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Scribe Video Center presents a three-night retrospective screening series celebrating interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri beginning Wednesday, May 12th.
Rea Tajiri is an acclaimed filmmaker who creates installation, documentary, experimental, and essay films. Poetic, subtly layered and politically engaged, her work advances the exploration of forgotten histories, multi-generational memory, landscape and the Japanese American experience. Born in Chicago and now living in Philadelphia, Tajiri’s works, including History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige are part of the cannon of American independent cinema. The selection of films presented in the Body of Work retrospective explore a gamut of non-traditional filmic storytelling approaches, bringing buried histories of people of color to the fore. Join us as we honor and bring to conversation the confident, beautiful, and vital works of Rea Tajiri.
The retrospective begins on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM with a screening of Little Murders, Off Limits, and History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige. Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice, co-produced by Pat Saunders, will screen on Thursday, May 13. The series closes with a screening of Lordville, paired with a preview of her latest film Wisdom Gone Wild on Friday, May 14 at 7:00 PM. Each screening will be followed by a post-film discussion with the filmmaker, viewable on Scribe’s Crowdcast platform. Tickets are $5 per evening.
Learn more and register: https://www.scribe.org/events/body-work-rea-tajiri
