Screening and Symposium “What of the 311 Disaster Will Cinema Convey in 100 Years?”

11/03/2014

Screening and Symposium
“What of the 311 Disaster Will Cinema Convey in 100 Years?”

To celebrate the inauguration of 311 Documentary Film Archive, YIDFF will host a symposium in Sakurada Cinema, Tohoku University of Art
and Design, Yamagata, on Nov 29.

All programs are open to the public. Participation from the audience is warmly welcome.

Screening and Symposium
“What of the 311 Disaster Will Cinema Convey in 100 Years?”

• November 29 (Sat)
13:00

Introduction to YIDFF 311 Documentary Film Archive

13:30

Screening
Miyato, Record of Recovery 2011–2013
Dir: Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 2014 / 58 min
Winner of the Grand Prize of Yufuin Bunka-Kiroku Film Festival 2014

15:00

Special Lecture 
“Archiving Disaster” 
Lecturer: Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)
With screenings of archival newsreel footages of the Great Kanto Earthquake

15:50

Panel Discussion 
“What of the 311 Disaster Will Cinema Convey in 100 Years?”
Participants: 
Kainuma Hiroshi (Sociologist, Fukushima University) 
Takamori Junko (Director and archivist of the Group for Continuous Documentation of the Great Hanshin Earthquake) 
Abé Mark Nornes (Film Studies, University of Michigan) 
Moderator: Ogawa Naoto (Coordinator for YIDFF 2013’s Cinema with Us program)

[Venue]

Sakurada Cinema, Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata City)
* For those who wish to visit the venue (TUAD/“Geikoudai”) by bus from JR Yamagata station: Please check the bus schedule in advance, since the number of bus services in operation is very limited on weekends.

[Admission]

800 yen, Free for Students

[Presented by]

YIDFF (NPO)

[Co-presented by]

Tohoku University of Art and Design

[Supported by]

GBFund 2014, Shonai Bank Charitable Trust Fund 2014

[Contact]

phone: 023-666-4480 (YIDFF Yamagata office)
e-mail: 311docs@yidff.jp