Papier als Kunst, Papier als Kriegswaffe (1): Die Papier-Kunst der Maya Onoda

Film-Nr.: 131
Vorführungstermin: Mittwoch, 12. August 2009, 21 Uhr (Vorfilm) [VN13]
Themenschwerpunkt: Japan-USA (1) | Papier als Kunst, Papier als Kriegswaffe (1)

Englischer Titel: MAYA ONODA — Nomadic Home
Originaltitel: MAYA ONODA — Nomadic Home
Deutscher Titel: MAYA ONODA — Nomadisches Zuhause
Herkunft: USA 2008
Laufzeit: 25 min
Sprachfassung: Englische Originalfassung

Regie: Rima Yamazaki
Produzent: Rima Yamazaki
Schnitt: Rima Yamazaki
Kamera: Rima Yamazaki

URL Film-Homepage: http://rimasweblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/maya-onoda-nomadic-home.html + http://rimasweblog.blogspot.com/
Premierenstatus: Internationale Premiere
Bisherige Aufführungen: NewFilmmakers Spring Festival in New York, USA (WP)

Kurzinhalt: Die Arbeit mit Papier der japanischen Künstlerin Maya Onoda, die Brooklyn, New York, als ihre "nomadische Heimat" bezeichnet.

Trailervideo: http://blip.tv/file/2242971 + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7bjMRolHe8&feature=PlayList&p=4B4FE5E49176D406&index=9

Englische Synopsis: This documentary is about a young Japanese artist, Maya Onoda, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She considers herself as a 'nomad' and her art which she makes as her 'nomadic' home. Introducing her art, this documentary seeks what she is trying to do through making art and what her identity is like here in the United States, which is far away from her own country.


photo: Maya Onoda

Englische Werkbeschreibung: New York is an artworld center. But at the same time, there are also big issues of culture, identity and nationality for foreign artists. How does it influence the artists and their art to live and work in a foreign city? This documentary is about Maya Onoda, a Japanese artist living and working in New York City. She came to the United States ten years ago and she studied art at California State University. After she earned a BFA there, she moved to New York, which was about 4 years ago. She received a MFA at Pratt Institution in Brooklyn and currently she belongs to Magnan Projects Gallery in New York. Maya makes installation art. She considers herself as a “nomad” because she goes back and forth between two different cultures, American and Japanese cultures. She also calls her installation art as a “nomadic tent,” which means a portable home she can carry around anywhere with her. Her installation creates an intimate atmosphere. She uses materials which she collects in her daily life. She gives another lives to these materials by “recycling” them, turning them into art. These performances — collecting and recycling — are deeply related to her memory of her childhood and her mother. Most Japanese women, especially older generation, have habits of collecting things and making another things from old stuffs by recycling. Sewing which she often uses in her art is also related to her mother; her mother was good at dressmaking and Maya had often seen her mother sewing and making clothes for her. However, her art has not only a “Japanese” sense. After she moved to the United States, she discovered her own identity, which was not only as a Japanese, but as “herself.” That is another reason why she considers herself as a “nomad.” She maintains her true identity through making her art, her “nomadic home” in a foreign city.

Director's Bio: Rima Yamazaki is a documentary film/videomaker born in Japan, 1982, living and working in New York since 2006. She studied Sociology at Hitotsubashi University in Japan and earned a B.A. in Sociology. There she mainly studied about Muslim immigrants in European countries, but through making documentary videos based on field researches, her interest gradually shifted to visual art. She made her first documentary video “Color on Colors” in 2004, which is about a young Japanese artist, Satoshi Uchiumi. After she moved to New York in 2006, she started focusing on making documentaries on art and artists, such as “In the Studios: 6 MFA Students at Hunter College in New York” and “MAYA ONODA: Nomadic Home.” Now she is also interested in cultural relationships and artists living in the globalized world.


photo: Rima Yamazaki

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Papier als Kunst, Papier als Kriegswaffe (2): Bomben auf Flügeln aus Papier; im Zweiten Weltkrieg: die Angriffswelle Japans auf die Westküste der USA

Film-Nr.: 132
Vorführungstermin: Mittwoch, 12. August 2009, 21 Uhr (Hauptfilm) — [VN13]
Themenschwerpunkt: Heilung als kultureller und sozialer Prozess (2) | Japan-USA (2) | Papier als Kunst, Papier als Kriegswaffe (2)

Englischer Titel: On Paper Wings
Originaltitel: On Paper Wings
Deutscher Titel: Auf Flügeln aus Papier
Herkunft: USA 2008
Laufzeit: 67 min
Sprachfassung: Englisch-Japanische Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln

Regie: Ilana Sol
Produzent: Ilana Sol
Schnitt: Kate Schoninger, Michael Gandsey (sound)
Kamera:
Musik: Eric Schopmeyer, Peter Broderick, Tara Jane O'Neil
Produktion:

URL Film-Homepage: http://www.onpaperwingsthemovie.com
Premierenstatus: Europäische Erstaufführung
Bisherige Aufführungen: Salem Film Festival, WINNER: NW Emerging Artst Award, Best Feature, Salem, Oregon, USA; Kent Film Festival, WINNER: Best Documentary Film, Kent, Connecticut, USA, North America PREMIERE; Northwest Film and Video Festival, WINNER: Audience Award for Best Feature, Portland, Oregon, USA; Red Rock Film Festival, Springdale, Utah, USA; Girlfest Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Tacoma Film Festival, WINNER: Best Documentary Film, Tacoma, Washington, USA; Astoria International Film Festival, WINNER: Best Regional Film, Astoria, Oregon, USA; Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, Washington, USA; New York Peace Film Festival, New York City, USA; Washougal International Film Festival, Winner of Spirit Award, Washougal, Washington, USA.

Kurzinhalt: In der Spätphase des Zweiten Weltkriegs startete Japan eine Angriffswelle mit Flugbomben, die durch Papierballons mit dem Luftstrom an die Westküste der USA getragen wurden. Der Film berichtet von den Hintergründen und Wirkungen dieses kaum bekannten Kriegseinsatzes.



Englische Synopsis: In 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians affected by this incident.

Englische Werkbeschreibung: During WWII, the Japanese military developed a new weapon intended to strike directly at the American continent – the balloon bomb. High school girls across Japan were conscripted into factories where they built thousands of balloons made of paper. These balloons were then attached to bombs and launched into the jet stream to drift toward North America. On May 5th, 1945, a pastor, his pregnant wife, and five children departed on a picnic in Southern Oregon. When they found an un-detonated balloon bomb, the device exploded, killing the pastor’s wife and all five children. They became the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, a Japanese American man who had spent his wartime years in an internment camp found out about these deaths. He knew several women in Japan who as young girls had been forced to work on the balloon bombs, and the news of these deaths shocked and saddened them. These women decided to fold a thousand paper cranes to offer to the families of those killed in Oregon, and the groups eventually all met face to face. The friendships formed since have helped citizens on both sides of the Pacific cope with the tragedies they experienced during WWII. This is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed in Oregon, and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after WWII, and the balloon bomb project.

Director's Bio: Ilana Sol is a filmmaker who lives and works in Portland, Oregon (USA). She has worked in the film industry for twelve years on a variety of independent, educational and commercial projects. When her hobby of historical research led her to find out about the Japanese balloon bombs, she soon found herself spending hundreds of hours researching these bizarre weapons, and traveling thousands of miles to meet with those affected by them. Truth is often stranger than fiction, and this has solidified her love of documentary filmmaking. She is the recipient of grants from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the Oregon Heritage Commission. “On Paper Wings” is her first film.



GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz