Film

Japan in Paris in L.A.

1996 · 30m

Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes, only to find that ethnic and cultural differences stand in his way. Around this narrative, the Yonemotos construct a multi-layered and self-reflexive work in which strategies of disjunction and contradiction are key. Employing heightened theatricality, experimental narrative strategies and archival footage, the film proposes a complex meditation on issues of modernity, representation, ethnocentrism and identity.

Susan Tyrrell

• Bruce YonemotoDirector
• Norman YonemotoDirector

Release date

January 1, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m