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Little Murders - 1999 Fellowship  Format: Digital Length: 19 min. A surreal and often dark musical comedy about the complex relationships between members of a contemporary Asian-American family. Festivals: Chicago Asian American Showcase (IL)/Los Angeles Asian Pacific American International Film Festival (CA)/Febio Fest (Prague) Strawberry Fields (1997) - 1992 Fellowship  Format: 35 mm Length: 90 min. A 16 year-old Japanese-American girl searches for identity within the turmoil of 1970s America, contending with the death of her little sister and her parents denial of their painful internment camp memories. Awards: Grand Prix, Fukuoka Asian Film Festival, Japan Broadcasts: PBS Festivals: Asian American Film Festival (NY)/Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (Japan)/Venice/ Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (CA)/ Women in the Director's Chair (Chicago, IL)/New York Women's Film Festival (NY) Screenings: Lincoln Center (NY)/Museum of Modern Art (NY)/Columbia University (NY)/Los Angeles theatrically release Distribution Info: Phaedra Cinema
11022 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 350 Los Angeles CATel: (310) 478-3308 Fax: (310) 478-0206 mafiacat@aol.com Web Sites: Selected Works Film Aloha (1999)
Little Murders (1998) Strawberry Fields (1997) Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice (1994, co-director) History and Memory (1991) Hitchcock Trilogy (1987) Installation Unforgettable (1992, co-artist)
Questions for My Father. . . . (1992) Accomplishments Grand Prix, Fukuoka Asian Film Festival, 1998
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships, 1993 and 1989 Whitney Biennial, 1989 and 1991 Artist-in-Residence/Visiting Faculty: School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000; Temple University, Philadelphia, 1998; University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995; and Videotage, Hong Kong, 1996 Education 1982 MFA and 1980 BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia Web Site News July, August, September 2007 Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory
was shown in the Asian
American International Film Festival, in New York City in
July. This short documentary explores personal and cultural memory by
juxtaposing Hollywood images of Japanese Americans and World War II
propaganda with stories from the filmmaker's family. April 2003 Rea Tajiri participated on the panel Women Documentarians: Telling It Like It Is at the New York Women in Film and Television 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center in New York in March. March 2003 Rea Tajiri's History and Memory: For Akiko and Takeshige, an exploration of the Japanese-American experience through media reports, Hollywood clips and the maker's mother's personal memories of her interment during World War II, was shown in March at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's series 25 Years of Women Calling the Shots. |
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