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From Indian Warli painting through traditional Japanese calligraphy and Kabuki Dance to traditional Balinese dances, this stunning collection of artfilms on Asian art & culture also features award winning documentaries on current affairs in North Korea, contemporary China and more...

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Antiquities, Oriental Great Tales In Asian Art The Theatres of Asia: Asian Theater: Buddhism as - in and Asian Art An Introduction Conversation Performance with A.C. Scott

The world’s most beautiful and Filmed on location, four beloved Places the major forms of both A.C. Scott elaborates on his long Analysis of Meditation and Theatrical fascinating antiques from the ancient stories of India, Indonesia, Korea Asian classical and folk theatre in years of experience in China and Practice by Dr David George. Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, and Japan are told through the their cultural context, this video Japan and shows film clips and “Buddhism as/in Performance is a and Near-Eastern sculptures and masterpieces of visual art and the introduces Asian theatre through slides of his classes, rehearsals and commendable piece of painstaking vases and also the masterpieces of stirring performances these tales the roles it plays in the lives of Asian workshop productions in which research, presented in jargonless, the African, Asian and Oriental Art. have inspired for centuries. people and its special relationship to Asian performers have assisted him compellingly readable style. It is young people. in the training of American student certainly a pre-eminent contribution actors. to drama studies, particularly of Buddhist theatrical practices.” Edward Said: Edward Said: The Encounters: The My Asian Heart On Orientalism Myth of the ‘Clash of Meeting of Asia and Civilisations’ Europe 1500-1800

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In this lavishly illustrated interview In this important lecture delivered Produced alongside the V&A’s In 1989 Blenkinsop quit his job on Said talks about the context within at the University of Massachusetts, landmark 2004 exhibition, the The Australian newspaper, sold which the book was conceived, its Said takes aim at one of the central film explores both the western his Austen Healey Sprite sports main themes, and how its original tenets of recent foreign policy fascination for the exotic materials car, bought two Leica cameras... thesis relates to the contemporary thinking- that conflicts between of Asia as well as the interest in and a one way ticket for Bangkok. understanding of “the Orient” as different and “clashing civilizations” European technologies in India, He was escaping suburbia for the represented in the mass media. (Western, Islamic, Confucian) China and Japan. heartbeat and chaos of Asia. characterize the contemporary world. China info / buy China Screen Series asian collection CHINA

A Better Life Hard Old Rock The Yangtze River`s Flavour and Affinity Green Sailors

Chronicles from a changing empire...

For a few years now China has been undergoing considerable changes. The implosion of the IC-CSBetter | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSHard | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSSailor| 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSFlavour | 52’ | DVD & Streaming Soviet Empire, the reforms and opening-up policy, the advent of consumerism and the emergence of modernity: important My Last Secret The Secret of the The Graduates The Final Migration challenges to meet, both socially Roast Pigeon and economically. Although the country has gained considerable international influence, it’s inner mechanisms actually remain largely unknown. Between the < yellow peril > and an economic miracle, one often forgets to considerthe 1.3 billion Chinese citizens attempting to findtheir place in a completely new context. IC-CSSecret | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSPigeon | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSGraduate| 52’| DVD & Streaming IC-CSFinal | 52’ | DVD & Streaming That’s why it is important to talk about “the New China” differently: through an From one Patient The Travelling Court An Ordinary Season A Village Life exceptional 22 volume portfolio to the Next of human-interest stories, filmed from the inside by young independent Chinese filmmakers.

By observing its diversity, in the cities and in the countryside, with the young and families, with rich and poor, but always with ordinary people. The curious viewer will find here a compelling mosaic revealing a mysterious, IC-CSFrom | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSTravel | 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSOrdinary| 52’ | DVD & Streaming IC-CSLife | 52’ | DVD & Streaming complex and authentic China. info / buy China Screen Series asian collection CHINA

The Christians Lost Sentence? The Last House Standing The Big Family Nu Shu of Caichong

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Piano Dream Nobody’s Child Three Strings for The New Shelter Of Mothers and Two Storytellers Daughters

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Titles are available individually or as a collection of 22 documentaries. Please e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] for more info. info / buy Global Citizen Series asian collection CHINA

Documentaries on the issue of the Future of our Planet

Environment, energy, the diversity of species and peoples, food security, world governance... given today’s complexities, the list is long. While refusing to draw alarmist conclusions, to provide a platform for pessimistic speeches or obtrusive slogans, those films are a space for Citizens who chose to objectively open their eyes on the world around them. They fight in one way or other for an acceptable tomorrow. There is a good chance they have in mind the Indian saying “the earth is a gift of our parents and a lending of our children”.

Dioxin’s Children If Cities Could Fly Heavy Metal Hell in Paradise

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Organic, against all Murky Waters Dust The Last Village odds

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The Summer Palace The Summer Palace China: Hand & Eye On the Move: Volume 1 Volume 2 The Ancient Tea Route The Central Ballet of China

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Qianlong and the Splendors Cixi and the decline of the Three part series in HD follows in THE NOODLE MAN: Chinatown, New For the dancers of the Central Ballet of the Middle Empire. Discover Qing Dynasty. This part is built the hoofprints of those caravans York City is a traditional village in of China their American debut means the secrets of the extraordinary around the legendary figure of which hauled their baggage of the midst of downtown Manhattan, not only an opportunity to perform, imperial garden, recognized as a Empress Cixi, which accompanies tea across the Tibetan Plateau a tightly packed neighborhood but also the chance to create an World Heritage treasure. Recognize the decline of the Qing dynasty and the Himalayas to be sold in of crowded, Tortuously winding intercultural exchange with other why it is called the Versailles of the and with it, China as an Empire. the markets of South West Asia streets. In the heart of this urban dancers. This film documents their Orient. and dispersed to the entire world. “village” for more than 60 years is journey as they introduce Chinese the Hong Hop Noodle Company. ballet to American audiences.

A One Woman Show: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Chinese Take Away (Stage Play)

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Using a unique blend of storytelling, The inside story of a dissident for circus skills, clowning, movement the digital age who inspires global and magic, Anna Yen embodies her audiences and blurs the boundaries grandmother’s stories of survival in of art and politics. The detailed portrait 1930’s China and Hong Kong, to her provides a nuanced exploration of mother’s dislocation and grief in 60’s contemporary China and one of its surban Sydney, to her own grief, most compelling public figures. confusion and peace-making with her family’s histories. India

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Dances of India Seraikella Chhau Dances of India Dances of India The Darpana by Nala Najan The Masked Dance Bharata Natyam Learning Bharata Dance Company of India Arangetram Dances Natyam

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Classic dances of India are Kedar Nath Sahoo, Director of the Traditional Bharata Natyam dances Padma Chebrolu demonstrates Mrinalni Sarabhai and her troupe of performed by Nala Najan, teacher State Government Training Centre of performed during the formal Bharata Natyam: Salutation, Basic Indian dancers and musicians - The and dancer who studied for years Seraikella Chhau, performs excerpts performances. It also has all the Positions, Single Hand Gestures, Darpana Dance Company - perform in India. Mr. Najan performs each from choreographed pieces. With dances used during Arangetram Warm up Exercises, Steps, Head a classical Kathakali piece, and her dance in traditional costume. demonstrations of many of the (solo graduation recital). Includes Movements, Eye Movements, Neck own “Song of Creation.” Asian dance basic movement patterns adapted the songs, meaning of the songs Movements, Double Hand Gestures, expert Faubion Bowers provides from the martial arts tradition of the and descriptions of the dances for Poses, Costumes & Make Up, commentary and interviews region. easy reference. Ananda Natanam Dance. Sarabhai.

Actor Training and Kalarippayatt From India to East Lansing: Acting Techniques of Raga Revelry: A Journey Kalarippayatt Martial Arts of India Surpanakha - Producing Kutiyattam - Sanskrit Through North Indian Martial Art of India a Sanskrit Drama Theatre of India Classical Music

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Phillip Zarrilli explores the potential Phillip Zarrilli explores a wide range Graphically describes the research, Farley Richmond demonstrates the Documentary and companion of studying selected aspects of this of basic physical movements. preparation and rehearsal process basic body posture for male and study tracks. An introduction to unique form of martial art as part Demonstrates the basic poses, which led to performance of an female characters, simple physical the centuries-old tradition of North of an integrated program of actor steps, jumps and kicks, how various Indian play by American theatre movements, the use of gesture Indian Classical Music, colloquially training. Demonstrated by students weapons are incorporated into the students. as language. Indian instructors referred to as Raga music. The of the Department of Theatre, advanced stages of physical training. demonstrate the eye exercises and educational quality of the film is Michigan State University. facial expressions. endorsed by India’s premier national arts academy. info / buy art & culture asian Collection INDIA

Sun and Moon Indigo: A World of Blue Tana Bana: Through The Eye of a In Search of Lost and the God of Rain Wisdom of the Loom Needle: Stories from Colour: The Story of an Indian Desert Natural Dyes

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With an emphasis on the changing Follow the production of the dye What is the magic of the hand-loomed Stories of the women from the Kutch Documents the growing, harvesting, face of traditions, the film explores from the fields of Sindh, Pakistan, cloth? Shot in rural locations in Africa, Mahila Vikas Sangathan co-operative extraction and use of natural dyes. Indian Warli art from the perspective through Laos, Indonesia, and Turkey Laos, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan, are recorded here. The amazing From the Bogolanfini mudprinting of of its essential functionality, its to the famous Pitchi Reddy farm in this documentary explores the world landscape of the Indian Kutch desert, Mali to the madder-root of Turkey, role within the tribal community India. Presents rare footage of the of looms, weaves, and artisans. the remarkable diversity of the from the cochineal insects to the rare and roots in rituals and worship. dye process in several unique village communities who live here, and the shellfish purple, this film provides Featuring warli artist Jivya Soma contexts. breathtaking colours of their textiles. a look at some of the most exotic Mashe. colours in existence.

Hinduism: Indian Mysticism Bloody Monday: The A Death for Peace: An Introduction Assassination of Lord Mahatma Gandhi and Louis Mountbatten the Impossible Quest

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The history of Hinduism’s development A set of six documentaries, an in Mountbatten was a naval war hero On January 20, 1948, Gopal Godse and reformation; spiritual concepts depth exploration of Indian culture, and the last Viceroy of India, the ridicules himself in a failed attempt such as karma, dharma, and God as religion, rituals, spiritualism & society man who had supported Mahatma to kill the mahatma. However, only both one and many; the numerous touching on Nadi Shastra, the Ghandi’s bid for independence. On ten days later, his brother Nathuram Hindu scriptures; and Hindu worship Mahakumbh at Allahbad, Saadhana: the morning of August 27th 1979 will put en end to the life of the practices are explored in this The Art of Devotion, Aghoris and Lord Mountbatten’s motor boat was Father of the Partition of the Indian intriguing educational resource. more. blown to pieces by an IRA bomb... Empire into India and Pakistan... Japan info / buy noh & bunraku asian collection JAPAN

Acting Techniques of Noh, the Classical The Japanese Noh - Theatre & Music Music of the the Noh Theatre Theatre of Japan Noh Theatre 2 DVDs Noh Theatre of Japan Selected Scenes

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With Akira Matsui. Basic posture Akiro Matsui, professional actor and Performance selections from the Musical segments from the following Musical segments from the following patterns of walking and turning. master-teacher of the Kita Noh School Five Main Schools of Traditional Noh plays and Dances: Noh plays and dances: Okina, Variations of these depending of Tokyo, performs excerpts from Japanese Noh; including: Takasago Okina Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa, Kakko, on the sex, temperament, age the plays BENKEI ON THE BRIDGE Yashima, Hagoromo, Tenko, Midare, Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, and personality of a character. and THE LADY HAN. The excerpts Koi no Netori, Youchi Soga Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera. Kanjincho, Miidera. Performed Symbolism of hand gestures and illustrate widely contrasting aspects of Ominameshi, Kazuraki. Interviews: Performance selections from the by many of the most important more... the Noh actor’s art. Okura Genjiro, Fujita Rokurobyoue Five Main Schools of Traditional musicians of the Noh theatre world. Umewaka Gensyou and more... Japanese Noh.

Noh Play Noh Theatre - Dojoji Asian Concepts of Stage Bunraku The Lovers’ Exile “Tale of Genji” excerpts Discipline and Western Classical Japanese Actor Training Puppet Art

Excerpts from the Japanese dance- Featuring highlights and a complete A.C. Scott draws on long years Includes performances from two Brings an engaging theatrical form drama Noh play “Tale of Genji”, performance. Featuring Kanze of experience in China, Japan, traditional Bunraku dramas and from Japan to contemporary cinema from the 14th century, performed Kiyokazu, at Obori Koen Nogakudo, and teaching to present a clear filmed scenes showing how the audiences, merging the artistry and by Tatsuo Minagawa,Tei Ko, Shizu Fukuoka; Umewaka Rokuro, at philosophy of Asian stage discipline puppets are made and articulated. grace of the legendary Bunraku Nakamura, and Yuki Shimoda, Nagoya Nogakudo; Shiotsu Akio, and its application to the training of Commentary by Faubion Bowers, Puppet Theatre with the power of the with commentary by the leading filmed on the outdoor Noh Stage western actors. expert on dance and Asian arts. screen through the collective talent Japanese scholar Donald Keene. of Misogi Shrine Nogakuden, in of many international contributors. Yamanashi. info / buy kabuki asian collection JAPAN

Kabuki Techniques Kabuki Acting Kabuki Acting Kabuki Classics: Kabuki for Western Techniques 1: Techniques II: Onoe Baiko VII in Actors and Directors The Body The Voice The Salt Gatherer

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Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s Leonard Pronko demonstrates Pronko explains a range of voices Performance by Kabuki actor Baiko Pronko outlines a multitude of ways Kabuki Theatre reveal the acting fundamental techniques in Kabuki appropriate for depicting the VII of a famous 18th Century Kabuki Kabuki may be used by actors and techniques used in this most acting. Male movement patterns, young girl, noble wife, evil warrior, dance based on a Noh drama. Baiko directors in the West. He provides a difficult of theatre forms. Onoe variations in the walk, poses and young man, old woman and refined also grants a rare interview, explains range of filmed illustrations from his Shoroku II and Onoe Baiko VII exits, female movement patterns warrior. He demonstrates numerous his art and the origin of the dance own productions and shows slides discuss and demonstrate their craft. based on age, temperament and social specialized vocal techniques with he performs and gives notes on of his recent show, THE REVENGER’S Includes footages of great Kabuki class. Excerpts from professional filmed illustrations. technique to his son, also a Kabuki TRAGEDY. performances of the past. performers. actor.

Kabuki-za Final Curtain Tamasaburo Bando Kabuki Dance Collection Fuji Musume MG-Fuj | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando dances Fuji Musume. Features the dances, Yukari no Tuki, Yasuna, Aoi no Ue, Kane no Misaki. Kagamijishi MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando displays his extraordinary versatility in this most demanding of roles; first as a shy maiden and then as a fierce lion. Also features Tamasaburo in the dances Kanaya Tanzen and Kosu no To. Musume Dojoji MG-Mus | 70’ | DVD Performed at Tokyo’s Kabuki-Za Theatre, Tamasaburo is seen here at the height of his powers as a dancer. Onatsu Kyoran MG-Onat | 119’ | DVD Today it is one of the best surviving examples of early 20th century theatre reform, reform that sought to do away with much that was illogical in MG-Kabuki | 160’ | DVD traditional Kabuki dance and to concentrate instead on the psychological realism of the characters. Ichikawa Danjuro XII, Onoe Sagi Musume MG-Sag | 70’ | DVD Kikugoro VII, Nakamura Jakuemon IV, Nakamura Baiygoku IV, Yokihi MG-Yok | 70’ | DVD Kataoka Nizaemon XVI, Nakamura Part fairy tale, part ghost story, Princess Yôkihi (Yang Kwei Fei) is one of the Kanzaburo XVIII, Nakamura most beautiful love stories in Chinese history. Kichiemon II and many of the greats of the Kabuki world appear in this documentary. info / buy butoh & gagaku asian collection JAPAN

Physical Theatre: Cine Dance: The Butoh Butoh Butoh Butoh and Beyond of Tatsumi Hijikata Piercing the Mask Body Weather Farm (by Takahiko iimura)

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The video is a documentary of a Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: This documentary pierces the An insight into the training practices workshop presented by Cheryl Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, mystery and mystique of a dance and life on Body Weather Farm - Heazlewood in Perth in 1996. Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, and movement adored by the West and the home to one of Japan’s most Cheryl presents powerful and others. Rose Color Dance Dancers: largely ignored by the Japanese. It enigmatic Butoh practitioners, Min inspiring training exercises which are Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, uses archival and modern footage Tanaka and his dance company, drawn from her eclectic training in Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka of leading Butoh performers - Mai Juku. Featuring previously occidental and oriental movement Ishii, and others... Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo unpublished photographs. and theatre. Ono - and interviews.

Gagaku: Music For Eternity

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Transcending time and space for hundred and thousands of years, Gagaku, the traditional music of the Japanese Imperial Court, represents the spirit of an ancient time. info / buy art & culture asian collection JAPAN

A Zen Life - D.T. Suzuki Dreams of the Projects Kochuu: Getting Along The Visas that Saved DANCHI NO YUME Japanese Architecture in Japanese Lives Influence & Origin

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was one of Danchi No Yume: Dreams of the Modern Japanese architecture, its Video learning series which presents The story of an extraordinary Japanese the 20th century’s most important Projects, tells the story of Anarchy, roots in the Japanese tradition, and the Japanese language through diplomat who sacrificed his own writers and thinkers. During his a young man born into a hidden its impact on the Nordic building familiar daily situations: Shopping, career during World War II to write long and extraordinarily fruitful underworld of yakuza gangsters, tradition. Winding its way through Asking the Way, Taking the Train and the precious visas that saved an life Suzuki became the first voice immigrants and low income families visions of the future and traditional Bus, Getting Along with Neighbours, estimated 6,000 Jewish lives. of Japanese Buddhism, especially struggling to survive in a strict concepts, nature and concrete, Going Out to Eat at a Restaurant, at Zen, to the Western World. Japanese society. gardens and high-tech spaces. a Japanese Home, Preparing a Meal etc...

Soul of the Samurai MA, a Japanese Concept Japan Cultural Atlas Kendo: The Story of Sumo The Path of the Sword

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With unique 3D animation, ancient Takahiko iimura experimental A visual feast of Japanese culture. An examination of Kendo, the The pageantry and ritual preparations Japanese woodblock prints come films. MA: SPACE/TIME IN THE Containing nearly 2000 photos it has a “senior” Japanese martial art, a by wrestlers and supporting staff to life. Soul of the Samurai is the GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI (1989), THE user-friendly thematic arrangement, of form of stylized sword fighting using in the days prior to one of the six story of their life and of a culture MAKING OF IN RYOAN-JI (1989), image and text, under headings such bamboo staves. Shot on location annual Grand Sumo Tournaments. unfamiliar to most of the Western MA: THE STONES HAVE MOVED as Art, Religion, Martial Arts, Sport, in Japan, includes explanations of The efforts of wrestlers, hairstylists, world. (2004), MA (INTERVALS) (1977) People, Architecture etc. kendo formalities, its appeal at all calligraphers and builders of the ring levels of society, and comparisons itself come together on opening day. with other martial arts. info / buy visual art asian collection JAPAN

OUTSIDER ART IN JAPAN Outsider Art has its origins in the French word art brut, which described art made by those outside the art scene particularly that created in 19th Century European Psychiatric Hospitals. In The 1940s, surrealists like Dubuffet and Max Ernst became interested in this art, and Outsider Art came to be more broadly interpreted as outside a didactic tradition and outside the boundaries of official culture. It was often unsettling and indecipherable, yet undeniably arresting. While it did not follow the artistic fashion of its time, Outsider Art nevertheless responds to the times in unexpected ways. For this reason Outsider Art has a growing following in world art circles.

Outsider Art has also had an influence on the introduction and development of art therapy programs around the world. In Japan’s art therapy programs, materials are typically made available to the participants without any instruction on what they should make or how they should make it. The results are astonishing and diverse. The work of Japanese outsider artists has now been featured in galleries in London, Lausanne and the Venice Biennale.

“Outsider Art in Japan” is a series of films that demonstrates the circumstances of some of these outsider artists, and how their art is created. With immense concentration, with zen like calm, methodically, obsessively, they create mysterious objects and fantastic drawings. The creation is ritual, reality into fantasy, fantasy into reality, revealing a logic that is perplexing yet strangely familiar.

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Volume 2: Writing CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Moriya Kishaba, Yoshimitsu Tomizuka, Takanori Herai

Volume 3: Urban Dreams CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Yuji Tsuji, Hidenori Motooka

Volume 4: Imaginary Worlds CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Shiho Ueda, Shinichi Sawada, Satoshi Nishikawa

Volume 5: Odd Shapes CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Akane Kimura, Machiko Nishimura, Takashi Shuji, M.K., Hirotaka Hatana

Volume 6: Passion for Toys CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Keisuke Ishino, Masatoshi Nishimoto, Atsushi Yokoyama

Volume 7: Déformer CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Shinichi Adachi, Kenshi Ito, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Hideaki Yoshikawa

Volume 8: The Realms of the Unreal CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Masaomi Kitajima, Shigemi Takahashi, Masahiko Tsuchiya, Kenichi Yamazaki

Volume 9: Figures of Solitude CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Norikazu Usui, Osamu Nadoyama, Yoshito Matsuo

Volume 10: Metamorphosis CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Kaoru Kudo, Takahiro Shimoda, Eijiro Miyama info / buy visual art asian collection JAPAN

Potters at Work The Leach Pottery, 1952 Samurai in Space - Shinkichi Tajiri

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A contemplative study of life and The only complete film available on A film by Paul Cox about Shinkichi work in traditional craft making the world-renowned artist potter Tajiri Japanese-American sculptor, communities. Filmed in the traditional Bernard Leach, one of the most photographer, filmmaker. pottery making villages, Onda and influential craftsmen of the 20th His life story, the hardships of being Koishibara in Southern Japan. The film century. The resulting documentary Japanese in the USA during WW2, his presents the workshops of Shigeki is a charming presentation of the career as an artist. Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in daily activities at The Leach Pottery. Koshibara.

Shodo: Japanese Future Wave: Manga Mad Calligraphy in Daily Life Japanese Design

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A survey of the varieties of writing Examines the economics, aesthetics, Contemporary Japanese culture styles, the place of writing as art in philosophy and personalities of through the iconography of its everyday life, examples of calligraphy Japanese design. biggest pop culture and explains filmed in kabuki theater, the shops It features interviews with Japanese why comics are not just for children, that sell the inks and papers used in design managers, fashion designers, as depicted by the compulsive fine writing, monks executing sutras marketing executives, authors and consumer obsessiveness of the in the old temple of Nara and more... commentators. otaku adult manga and anime scene. Southeast Asia info / buy asian collection SOUTHEAST ASIA

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An art book for the digital age. A multi-layered electronic book, it will enrich your imagination and visual experience with the living arts of Papua New Guinea. Living Art presents artworks and cultural performances that are astonishing in their dramatic visual effect and virtuosity. It is a highly visual experience of Papua New Guinea’s spectacular cultures and artistic wealth for many readers and viewers who have not experienced Papua New Guinean art in its own setting and context. ‘Kastom and Contemporary Culture’ and ‘Village • Urban • Global’ are the interlinking themes through which Living Art presents ideas about art, artists, creative processes and aesthetics. Moving across Papua New Guinea’s diversity of environments and cultures we locate innovative artists from rural villages, to downtown Port Moresby, to the international stage. We see how Papua New Guinea artists network and negotiate the linkages between local, regional and global art worlds. As we explore the Living Art of Papua New Guinea of today our ideas about what art is may be challenged. The interplay between text and interactive elements adds to the reader’s experience visually and intellectually. All individual interactive elements in Living Art have been carefully researched to extend the beyond the format of a conventional art book. The visual spectrum of images is greatly increased through virtual galleries. Hyperlinks to exhibition websites, online catalogues and essays extend the interpretation of images. With embedded video clips, you-tube links and image galleries, Living Art brings alive the multiple contemporary realities of art and life in Papua New Guinea. This art book for the digital age is the culmination of thirty years research, writing and curating activities in Papua New Guinea.

Disc 1: Interactive e-Book - 243 pages (PDF) Disc 2: Video clips and image gallery (DVD & Streaming)

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North Korea - Crossing the Line Series Crossing the Line - a rare portfolio of investigative documentaries, where engaged filmmakers look at what a certain number of North Korean defectors have experienced to escape their country. At the risk of their lives and those left behind. Korea, orphan of the Cold War, remains even in 2011 a divided country.

VOL 1. Accross Land, Across Sea IC-Crossing1 | 55’ | DVD & Streaming

2012 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY® AWARDS NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY. Songgook and Sueryun are a newly wed North Korean couple now living in the south. As is the case for an estimated 20 000 defectors who have built or are trying to build a new life in South Korea, they are attempting to secure their entire family’s freedom by arranging their defection along with them to the South. Songgook puts his life at risk, making a dangerous trek to the Tumen River, a border zone between China and North Korea. He makes plans to lead a daring escape: to smuggle his family into the South by boat. Because of the extreme danger associated with this journey, this kind of attempt is very rare. And this is the first ever to be filmed.

VOL 2. VOL 3. VOL 4. VOL 5. Itinerary of A Rebel Crossing Three Borders Seeking Haven Phantoms of the Border

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Tracing a North Korean`s citizen`s The story of nine defectors in an Youngsoon is a North Korean girl On the border of China, North quest for dignity. attempt to cross from China into has been determined to arrange Korean women are offered to Vietnam. her sister’s escape. Chinese brokers to be sold on the human market.

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The Bali Dances: Dances of Bali Acting Techniques Adapting Topeng, Masks and Faces: A Veil Between Worlds of Topeng, Masked the Masked Theatre of Dance and Drama Theatre of Bali Bali in Bali

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic Several important classic Balinese John Emigh introduces the masked John Emigh explains how he has A comprehensive guide to dances to show how intimately dances are performed by six theatre of Bali and shows how incorporated mask training and Balinese dance and drama by Dr. culture, religion and life are inter- dancers and twelve musicians, masks may be used as a guide to improvisation. Highlighted with David George. Dancing for the twined in Bali. Content: Legong artists celebrated in their own the interpretation of character. humorous excerpts from LITTLE Gods; Trance and Dance; Masks Kraton, Aria, Sanghyang Jaran culture yet hardly known abroad. The walk, variations on the basic RED RIDING SHAWL. He discusses and Faces; Shadows Of The Past & Kecak, Baris, Topeng, Joged, Interviews in Malay with two walk, variety of character types the ways he has combined ideas (Topeng). With more than 100 Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Condong, leading dancers are included: Raka and voices that is possible to from the West and from the unique slides. Calonarang. and Sukraka. achieve with the masks. masked theatre of Bali.

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Classic dances of India are A breathtaking performance, In the choreography of the artistic An exploration of various types of Ceylonese dances, each with an performed by Nala Najan, water sweeps across the stage and Director Lin Hwai-Min, age-old Thai dance, conducted by Asian explanation by T.P. Amerasinghe, American teacher and dancer who is flicked in arcs from the dancers’ beliefs and stories are brought dance authority Faubion Bowers, dance authority from Sri Lanka. studied for years in India. Mr. Najan moving arms and feet. The sound into contemporary and universal and illustrated with performances The fire dance, cobra dance, mask performs each dance in traditional of splashing water mingles with perspective taking its inspiration by dancers from the royal dance dance, harvest dance, a dance costume. Classic dances of India Bach’s music as the dancers throw from the Bamboo which is seen in school. The dances are seen of exorcism, the butterfly dance, are performed by Nala Najan, themselves on the stage, gliding on China as a symbol of integrity and with traditional instruments and and the ritual dance Ves Natuma, American teacher. the fine film of liquid. epitomising elegance. costumes. which was originally the prelude to a sacrifice. info / buy culture & politics asian collection SOUTHEAST ASIA

Vietnam: Frontline Global Citizen: The Lost Temple of Java A Contagious Dioxin’s Children Revolution

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