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Out of Place: Memories of Edward
Said by Makoto Sato. Japan/Palestine, 2005, 140 min, VHS |
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A Commemorative Tribute to the Late Prominent Scholar Edward Said Presented in collaboration with the Kevorkian Center,
NYU Beginning after Edward Said's untimely death in 2003, director Makoto Sato summons the aura that surrounds the man to trace a path through the broad and diverse scope of his legacy. From the convergence of his family's anecdotes, his colleagues' testimonies, home movies of his childhood, and the places and spaces of his life a portrait emerges of Edward Said that says as much about the current state of the issues he brought to the forefront of the Western consciousness as it does about the forces that shaped him. Out of Place serves as a powerful testament to the continuing importance of Said, the Palestinian-born intellectual, whose influential writings on literature, music and history were eclipsed only by his revolutionary role as a voice for the Palestinian people and for all exiles. In Arabic & English w/English subtitles. |
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| Born 1957 in Aomori Prefecture, and raised in Tokyo, Sato Makoto discovered documentary film when he visited Minamata as a student, and worked on Katori Naotaka’s The Innocent Sea. While touring Japan with the film, he met people who lived by the Agano River in Niigata and decided to make a film about them. Living with seven crew members for three years, Living on the River Agano was completed in 1992, and won a number of awards including the Runner-up Prize at YIDFF ’93. Following this, he made several films for TV. His work Artists in Wonderland (1998) screened at Japanese Panorama YIDFF ’99. That year he was appointed head instructor at the Film School of Tokyo, and 2001 became a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. At YIDFF 2001, he served as a juror for New Asian Currents and his films SELF AND OTHERS (2000) and Hanako (2001) were screened at that time. He spent one year living in London from August 2002 with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Artists. Recent publications include The Horizons of Documentary Film—To Understand the World Critically (2001) and Dozing London (2004; all works published by Gaifusha). | |||||||||||||
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Bangkok International Film Festival, Official Selection, 2006 • Yamagata IDFF (Closing Film), 2005 • Singapore International Film Festival, 2006 • Mumbai International Film Festival, 2006 |
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