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History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige is a 1991 documentary film by Rea Tajiri. In her film, Tajiri recalls her family's experience of the American internment of the Japanese during World War II.

History and Memory explores the story beyond the recorded history of the internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans. The film premiered at the 1991 Whitney Biennial exhibition, and has since been screened over 250 times.

The Film
Tajiri's goal in this film is to compare collective history presented by mainstream mediums, with the memory of real people. She utilizes memory through her family members' experiences, along with photographs and 8mm footage. She also uses mainstream mediums such as, newsreels, Hollywood feature film, and government propaganda.

Awards

 * 1991: Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association (Whitney Biennial, World Premiere)
 * 1992: Special Jury Prize: "New Visions Category" (San Francisco International Film Festival)
 * 1992: Best Experimental Video (Atlanta Film and Video Festival)
 * Named one of the Top 100 American Films by Women Directors

Screenings
All screenings below can be found on the Rea Tajiri Website.

2003-06:
 * Southern Connecticut State, Asian & Pacific Women Studies Conference
 * Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ICP, New York

1992-93:
 * Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
 * International Documentary Association Congress, Los Angeles, CA
 * Japan: Inside, Outside, In Between, Artists Space, NYC
 * National Educational Film & Video Festival, Oakland, CA
 * Relocations & Revisions: The Japanese-American Internment Reconsidered, Long
 * Beach Museum of Art
 * Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
 * University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
 * Human Rights Watch Festival, NY
 * Atlanta Film and Video Festival
 * Film &Video Festival, Toronto CANADA
 * Independent Eye, Broadcast KCET, Los Angeles
 * Rotterdam Film & Video Festival, Rotterdam NETHERLANDS
 * Berlin Film Festival, Berlin W. Germany
 * Saratoga Public Library, Saratoga NY
 * Videoscape, Asian Cinevision/ CUNY TV, NY
 * 50 Years of Remembrance: Center for New Television, Chicago, IL
 * Asian American Studies Presentation, Univ of Wisconsin Madison
 * Program for African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
 * Columbia College, Chicago, IL
 * A Question of Culture: Interrogating Identity, Madison Art Center, Madison WI
 * University of California Los Angeles, Asian American Film Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
 * Asian American Film and Video Festival, NAATA, Berkeley CA
 * The Asian American Experience, Walker Center, Minneapolis MIN
 * Visible Women, Cycles of Identity, Hallwalls Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo NY
 * Committed Visions, Museum of Modern Art, NY
 * Video and Sound: Video Viewpoints series, Museum of Modern Art, NY
 * Viper Video Festival, Switzerland
 * New York Center for Urban Folklore, NY
 * Women’s Media Project, Texas
 * Women In the Directors Chair Festival
 * Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
 * Finnish Film Festival
 * Asian American Women Filmmakers, Wesleyan University, CT
 * University of Chicago, Chicago IL
 * Society for Cinema Studies Conference, PA
 * Danish Film Inst Workshop, Kobenhaven, DENMARK
 * Territory Series, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin TX
 * European Media Arts Festival, Frankfurt Main GERMANY
 * University of Oklahoma, School of Art
 * Blackburst, Universitat Salzburg Inst for Publizistik/Kommunciations
 * Experimental 92 Filmclub Xenix,
 * University of Arizona, Phoenix
 * University of Hawaii at Maui
 * Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Library, NY

1991:
 * Hawaii Intl. Film Festival
 * Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
 * Columbia University, NY
 * Pearl Harbor Symposium, Japan Society, NY
 * The Hybrid State Films, Exit Art and Anthology Film Archives, NY
 * Recent Works by Rea Tajiri, SAW Video Gallery Co-Op, Ontario CANADA
 * Festival D’Ammiens, Ammiens FRANCE
 * Triply Split: Subject Bound Three Part, Long Beach Museum of Art
 * Independent Feature Project, NY
 * Syracuse University, NY
 * New Works by and About Asian American Women, LACE and Visual Communications,
 * Los Angeles, CA
 * Cultural Transitions: Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago IL
 * AFI Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA
 * Viper Video Festival, Lucerne SWITZERLAND
 * Robert Flaherty Seminar, Aurora NY
 * Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
 * Race to the Screen, The Euclid Toronto Canada

Reviews

 * “Tajiri approaches her subject like a poet. She weaves together images and allows them to enrich one another in skewed and subtle ways as their resonances slowly emerge.” (Caryn James, New York Times)


 * American Historical Review Review by Kathleen Hulser


 * New York Times Reveiw by Sarah Ing


 * Los Angeles Times Review by Robert Koehler