Screening: Film by Oguma Eiji Tell the Prime Minister (2015)
Talk: Oguma Eiji x Kuraya Mika “Wild Grass: How Ordinary People Change the World”
The documentary film Tell the Prime Minister directed by Oguma Eiji captures “miraculous moments” in the summer of 2012, when two hundred thousand ordinary people gathered in front of the Prime Minister’s Office to protest policies related to nuclear power.
The 8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives” takes its title from the Chinese writer Lu Xun’s (1881‒1936) anthology Wild Grass, published in 1927. In this book, he wrote that ordinary people, not heroes, could change the world through their commitments to everyday life.
We are currently facing many problems such as climate change, natural disaster, war, economic disparity, and intolerance. This event invites you to find clues to how we, ordinary people, can change the world.
［Program]
Introduction (13:30 – 13:40)
Screening: Film Tell the Prime Minister (13:40 – 15:30)
2015 | Japan | 109 min. | Direction, Production, English Subtitles: Oguma Eiji | Distribution: UPLINK Co.
‒ Intermission (10 min.) ‒
Talk: “Wild Grass: How Ordinary People Change the World” (15:40 – 16:30)
Oguma Eiji (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
Kuraya Mika (Executive Director, Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale /Director, Yokohama Museum of Art)
- Date / Time
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May 26 13:30 – 16:30（13:00 Doors Open）
- Venue
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Lecture Hall, Yokohama Museum of Art
- Seats
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240 / No advance registration required
*Free to attend either the screening or the talk only, or both - Admission
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Free
- Language
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Film: Japanese with English subtitles / Talk: Japanese
OGUMA Eiji
Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Oguma’s socio-historical works on modern Japan cover national identity, colonial policy, post-war democratic thought, the 1968 student movement, and Japan’s employment system. He has been awarded seven prizes for his publications and one prize for documentary filmmaking in Japan. Major publications in English are A Genealogy of ‘Japanese’ Self-Images, The Boundaries of ‘the Japanese’ vol 1 and 2 and Return from Siberia.
