Through an exploration of past documentaries, filmmaker Ann Kaneko discusses her interests in immigration, globalization, memory and history, culminating in a presentation of her current work-in-progress Manzanar, Diverted.
Manzanar, Diverted provides a fresh interpretation of the Japanese American confinement site by examining the environmental and political history behind the World War II camp. Prior to the war, Manzanar was where Native Americans were driven out and farmers and ranchers were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP). By connecting this camp to California’s environmental history, this film shows the intersectionality of how Japanese Americans, indigenous communities, and locals have been mistreated by government entities who have not served the interests of all of their citizenry. The film exposes the legacy of colonization, racism, and social injustice at Manzanar.
About the Speaker
Independent filmmaker Ann Kaneko is known for her personal films that weave her poetic aesthetic with the complex intricacies of political reality. Often involving subjects in other parts of the world, Kaneko probes the intersection where power impacts the personal. A graduate of UCLA's MFA program in film directing, Kaneko's films have screened internationally and domestically at numerous festivals and have been broadcast on PBS. She has been commissioned to produce media installations for the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Endowment and the Skirball Cultural Center.
Her films include A Flicker in Eternity, based on the diary and letters of Stanley Hayami, a Japanese American teenager who was incarcerated and killed in battle during World War II; Against the Grain: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Peru, which highlights the life and work of four inspiring Peruvian political artists under the stormy regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori; Overstay, about foreign migrant workers in Japan, and 100% Human Hair, a zany musical set in a Korean-owned Los Angeles wig shop.
This event is hosted by the Border Collective RIW.
About Us
The Border Collective is Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop focused on the ways that art and politics intersect in cultural production related to physical and metaphorical borders. Our origins are with the U.S.-Mexico border, and we have since expanded to explore border spaces of all kinds, from the geopolitical to the interpersonal. Our collective adds to current scholarly work by practicing a twenty-first century border studies that’s indebted to critical and creative production coming out of visual culture studies, literature (and its criticism), history and anthropology.
Manzanar, Diverted provides a fresh interpretation of the Japanese American confinement site by examining the environmental and political history behind the World War II camp. Prior to the war, Manzanar was where Native Americans were driven out and farmers and ranchers were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP). By connecting this camp to California’s environmental history, this film shows the intersectionality of how Japanese Americans, indigenous communities, and locals have been mistreated by government entities who have not served the interests of all of their citizenry. The film exposes the legacy of colonization, racism, and social injustice at Manzanar.
About the Speaker
Independent filmmaker Ann Kaneko is known for her personal films that weave her poetic aesthetic with the complex intricacies of political reality. Often involving subjects in other parts of the world, Kaneko probes the intersection where power impacts the personal. A graduate of UCLA's MFA program in film directing, Kaneko's films have screened internationally and domestically at numerous festivals and have been broadcast on PBS. She has been commissioned to produce media installations for the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Endowment and the Skirball Cultural Center.
Her films include A Flicker in Eternity, based on the diary and letters of Stanley Hayami, a Japanese American teenager who was incarcerated and killed in battle during World War II; Against the Grain: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Peru, which highlights the life and work of four inspiring Peruvian political artists under the stormy regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori; Overstay, about foreign migrant workers in Japan, and 100% Human Hair, a zany musical set in a Korean-owned Los Angeles wig shop.
This event is hosted by the Border Collective RIW.
About Us
The Border Collective is Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop focused on the ways that art and politics intersect in cultural production related to physical and metaphorical borders. Our origins are with the U.S.-Mexico border, and we have since expanded to explore border spaces of all kinds, from the geopolitical to the interpersonal. Our collective adds to current scholarly work by practicing a twenty-first century border studies that’s indebted to critical and creative production coming out of visual culture studies, literature (and its criticism), history and anthropology.
| Building: | Angell Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Discussion, Film, Free, History, immigration, Lecture, Multicultural |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of American Culture, Department of English Language and Literature, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies |
