Emiko Omori

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Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

Mar 12, 2009

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

2009 16 min 1 vues

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community in the decades before World War II as well as a contemporary story which follows 97-year old Fumi and her daughter Natalie as they return to the site of the former Minidoka internment camp, their first trip back together in 63 years. The film reveals how the iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.

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To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

Oct 01, 2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

2012 78 min 1 vues

A collective, cinematic love letter to the elusive French filmmaker, Chris Marker; Emiko Omori's film captures the persona of the legendary and enigmatic filmmaker.

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Women Behind the Camera

Aug 15, 2007

Women Behind the Camera

2007 90 min 1 vues

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen surviving the odds in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Mexico, the U.S. and other countries, as well as exploring their individual visions.

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Slaying the Dragon

Nov 04, 1988

Slaying the Dragon

1988 58 min 1 vues

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films such as "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Good Earth", and "The World of Suzie Wong", interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.

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5.3

Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm

Jan 01, 2007

Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm

2007 74 min 3 vues

This is the story of one simple invention, the vibrator, and its relationship to one complex human behavior, the female orgasm.

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To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

Oct 01, 2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

2012 78 min 1 vues

A collective, cinematic love letter to the elusive French filmmaker, Chris Marker; Emiko Omori's film captures the persona of the legendary and enigmatic filmmaker.

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To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

Oct 01, 2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

2012 78 min 1 vues

A collective, cinematic love letter to the elusive French filmmaker, Chris Marker; Emiko Omori's film captures the persona of the legendary and enigmatic filmmaker.

5.3

Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World

Oct 09, 2010

Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World

2010 74 min 3 vues

Ed Hardy is emblazoned on clothing worn by Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger, on wine and dozens of other products. Now you'll meet the real Ed Hardy, the godfather of modern tattooing and artist extraordinaire who gave up a promising career in the fine arts to pursue his childhood obsession: tattoos.

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Exquisite Moving Corpse

May 09, 2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse

2022 62 min 1 vues

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.

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7.8

Regret to Inform

Jan 01, 1999

Regret to Inform

1999 72 min 5 vues

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

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Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

Jul 13, 1999

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

1999 47 min 1 vues

CORPUS explores the mass adulation and explosive posthumous recognition of Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano rock singer murdered by the president of her fan club in 1995. Pushing beyond the mainstream media's fascination with her violent death, Portillo interviews Selena's family and friends as well as the devoted fans that pilgrimage to Selena's grave in Corpus Christi, Texas, to pay homage to the slain star. Moving and provocative, this humble investigative portrait explores Selena's cultural significance as a pop icon and shines a light on the hopes, fantasies, fears, and realities of young Latinas today.

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The Chinatown Files

Nov 09, 2001

The Chinatown Files

2001 57 min 1 vues

This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades. Exploring the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and the 1960s, it presents first hand accounts of seven men and women's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.

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Rabbit in the Moon

Jan 01, 1999

Rabbit in the Moon

1999 98 min 1 vues

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

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Rabbit in the Moon

Jan 01, 1999

Rabbit in the Moon

1999 98 min 1 vues

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

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Rabbit in the Moon

Jan 01, 1999

Rabbit in the Moon

1999 98 min 1 vues

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

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To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

Oct 01, 2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

2012 78 min 1 vues

A collective, cinematic love letter to the elusive French filmmaker, Chris Marker; Emiko Omori's film captures the persona of the legendary and enigmatic filmmaker.

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Home from the Eastern Sea

Jan 01, 1990

Home from the Eastern Sea

1990 57 min 1 vues

This documentary covers the story of Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans in Washington state, from their first arrivals, to the discrimination they've faced, to the modern families and communities that thrive today.

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Home from the Eastern Sea

Jan 01, 1990

Home from the Eastern Sea

1990 57 min 1 vues

This documentary covers the story of Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans in Washington state, from their first arrivals, to the discrimination they've faced, to the modern families and communities that thrive today.

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6.1

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Jun 01, 1994

Black Is… Black Ain’t

1994 87 min 10 vues

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

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Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Mar 31, 2001

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

2001 92 min 1 vues

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

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Rebels with a Cause

Nov 10, 2000

Rebels with a Cause

2000 110 min 1 vues

The story of the hopes, rebellions, and repression of the 1960s, told by those who lived it - members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

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WTF?

Dec 31, 2018

WTF?

2018 2 min 1 vues

Though it wasn’t initially intended to be silly, this cheeky short captures absurdity and playfulness on a street corner in San Francisco’s Chinatown, encouraging us to laugh a little more.

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The Times of Harvey Milk

Oct 07, 1984

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984 90 min 109 vues

Though it wasn’t initially intended to be silly, this cheeky short captures absurdity and playfulness on a street corner in San Francisco’s Chinatown, encouraging us to laugh a little more.

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When Rabbit Left the Moon

Dec 31, 2017

When Rabbit Left the Moon

2017 14 min 1 vues

Created from footage and outtakes from Rabbit in the Moon. An elegy to her parents’ generation—the Issei (immigrants)—and the legacy of suffering that haunts the community to this day

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Rabbit in the Moon

Jan 01, 1999

Rabbit in the Moon

1999 98 min 1 vues

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

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Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

Dec 31, 1999

Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

1999 57 min 1 vues

Five Chicana cultural critics gather over a meal to discuss and debate the life, death, and legacy of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

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Ghost Town to Havana

Sep 15, 2015

Ghost Town to Havana

2015 86 min 1 vues

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.

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Cowboy Poets

Apr 07, 1988

Cowboy Poets

1988 53 min 1 vues

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history. Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada, Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three working cowboys, and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land they love: Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite, and Wally McRae.

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Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio

Feb 23, 2020

Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio

2020 28 min 1 vues

The May’s Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in the present by reconnecting May’s granddaughter with her family’s legacy. These stunning photographs show San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early to mid-20th century, a vanishing “old Chinatown” vibrant with culture; an immigrant community becoming Americanized.

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Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World

Jan 01, 1983

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World

1983 58 min 1 vues

A compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst beautiful images of Hopi land and life, a variety of Hopi — a farmer, a religious elder, a grandmother, a painter, a potter, and a weaver — speak about the preservation of the Hopi way. Their philosophy of living in balance and harmony with nature is a model to the Western world of an environmental ethic in action.

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Nov 15, 1993

1993 min 1 vues

A 7-part series telling dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From the producers of Eyes on the Prize, this series was met with critical acclaim and won both an Emmy Award for writing and a duPont-Columbia Award.

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