Friday, Dec 13 The Minamata Mural With Max Carpenter Kazu

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We are so delighted to be hosting the US premiere of a rare 1981 film from documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto on 16mm. After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painting duo Iri and Toshi Maruki. Tsuchimoto follows the Marukis from their quaint homestead studio, where they paint slews of ghastly, psychotropic mural panels depicting the effects of Minamata disease, to the streets of Minamata, where they meet and paint portraits of several victims of mercury poisoning. On full display is Iri and Toshi’s riveting artistic process, combining exacting focused brushstrokes from Toshi with bouts of spontaneous ink-and-water slatherings from Iri, in one of the richer depictions of visual creation in documentary cinema.

This program is organized with independent programmer Max Carpenter who will be joined by filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda to lead a conversation with the audience following the film.

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