Self-documentary pioneers: Shirouyasu Suzuki and Kazuo Hara
Self-documentary pioneers: Shirouyasu Suzuki and Kazuo Hara
Author(s): Lena Králiková HashimotoSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Japanese documentary film; diary films; I-films; gokushiteki; first-person documentary; subjective point of view; film as a communication tool
Summary/Abstract: The term Japanese ‘self-documentary’2 describes an emerging trend in documentary film in Japan since the late 1990s. Diary films by Shirouyasu Suzuki and Kazuo Hara’s Extremely Private Eros: A Love Song 1974 are known as the roots of this genre, similar to a first-person documentary but limited thematically to personal issues such as family history and private complexes. This study shows how these two roots – underground film and independent docu- mentaries – reflected the social changes in Japan and how they became a tool for personal expression and communication in the 1970s.
Journal: Изкуствоведски четения
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 474-481
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
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