Directed by Rea Tajiri | 32 mins | 1991
A groundbreaking, highly influential work by the Chicago-born visual artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri, this poetic tapestry of the personal and the political reckons with the internment of some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, among them members of the director’s own family. Drawing upon images in mainstream media, family memories, photographs, and Super 8 footage, Rea reflects on the difficulty of representing the past, particularly one that has been elided from the historical record.

Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.