Yale Film and Media Studies Program

05/01/2024

04/20/2023

Please mark your calendars for the 2023 Reni-Celeste Lecture, happening next Thursday and Friday April 27-28th. Times and locations are on the poster below.

04/20/2023

Join us!

04/13/2023

SOMAI SHINJI FILMS at Yale

We're fortunate to be able to present this week two of the lesser-known films of Somai Shinji, arguably the director who has influenced contemporary Japanese cinema the most, especially for his masterful use of the long take. These screenings are a kind of preview of the large Somai retro at the Japan Society in NYC April 23 to May 13.

PP Rider (ションペン・ライダー, 1983)
7pm, Friday, April 14, 53 Wall Street Auditorium
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/pp-rider-1983-somai-shinji-film-screening

The Catch (魚影の群れ, 1983)
7pm, Saturday, April 15, 53 Wall Street Auditorium
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/catch-1983-somai-shinji-film-screening

Both films will be shown on DCP with English subtitles, and are free and are open to the public.

04/05/2023

We are very pleased to welcome the Japanese film director Fukada Koji to Yale on April 8 and 9, 2023, to show two of his films and hold noontime discussions with students, faculty, and other who are interested. Fukada is one of the leaders of a new generation of Japanese filmmakers whose films have been celebrated in Japan and abroad (for instance, at Cannes and Venice) and who, often in collaboration with Hamaguchi Ryusuke (Drive My Car), has been at the forefront in Japan of efforts to support filmmaking during the pandemic and reform the industry, especially by eliminating sexual harassment and improving labor conditions. Fukada’s cinema has both taken on social problems, from minorities in Japan (Hospitalité) to a post-Fukushima post-human future (Sayonara), as well as explored deeply personal and political issues of loss, trauma, disability, and otherness (Harmonium, The Man from the Sea, A Girl Missing, Love Life).

April 8:
HARMONIUM (Prix du Jury, Un Certain Regard, Cannes, 2016)
7pm, Alice Cinema, HQ L01
yale.edu/events/harmonium-2016-fukada-koji-film-screening

Noontime discussion with English translation
12 pm, International Room, Sterling Library
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/lunch-session-japanese-director-fukada-koji-english-japanese

April 9:
LOVE LIFE (International Competition, Venice, 2022)
7pm, HQ L02
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/love-life-2022-fukada-koji-film-screning

Noontime discussion with English translation
12 pm, International Room, Sterling Library
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/lunch-session-japanese-director-fukada-koji-english-japanese

04/05/2023

Wisdom Gone Wild is a reflection on elder consciousness, the power of listening and the healing empathy of being heard. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri partners with her mother, Rose Noda, to create a film about entering the world of a person living with dementia. Together, they nurture their connection through listening, art, and song.

Rea Tajiri is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and educator who creates installation, documentary and experimental films. Her work situates itself in poetic, non-traditional storytelling forms to encourage dialog and reflection around buried histories. Her groundbreaking, award-winning film, digital video, and installation work has been supported by numerous grants, fellowships, and artistic residencies, and has been exhibited widely in museums, on television and in international film festivals. As an advocate of emerging artists and directors, Rea co-founded The Workshop, an incubator for Asian American film directors in New York City. Tajiri has worked extensively throughout the U.S. as a visiting professor and artist-in-residence, and is currently teaching documentary production in the Film Media Arts department at Temple University.