Of Sea and Soil. The Cinema of Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Ogawa Shinsuke
On the occasion of the film programmes dedicated to Ogawa Shinsuke and Ogawa Pro at CINEMATEK (April 1 – May 5, 2019) and Tsuchimoto Noriaki at Courtisane Festival (April 3 – 7, 2019), the publication Of Sea and Soil: The Cinema of Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Ogawa Shinsuke will be available at Courtisane festival and CINEMATEK. This English publication – compiled, edited and published by Sabzian, Courtisane and CINEMATEK – aims to trace the trajectories of Ogawa Shinsuke and Tsuchimoto Noriaki, who film critic Hasumi Shigehiko respectively called “the filmmaker of the soil” and “the filmmaker of the sea”. The publication has taken the form of a scrapbook which assembles a patchwork of writings, quotes and interviews that we were able to track down and translate, with the help of numerous other “amateurs” who admire and cherish the work of these two filmmakers.
Introduction
Stoffel Debuysere, Elias Grootaers | 2019
OGAWA SHINSUKE AND OGAWA PRO
Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary
Markus Nornes | 2007, 2019
Cinematographic and Political Activities of a Committed Filmmaker
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1975
Statement on The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1968
Statement on Sanrizuka – Peasants of the Second Fortress
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1971
What Kind of Man Is Ogawa Shinsuke?
Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 1968
Time in a Village Tirelessly Under Surveillance
Ogawa Pro | 1972
The Struggle Has Not Finished Yet
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1972
A Letter Before Death
Sannomiya Fumio | 1971
The Image That Is Captured Is Guided by the Relationship Between the One Who Is Filmed and the One Who Films. An Interview with Yumoto Mareo
Kouni Kazuhiko | 1975
Rice Production, the Village of Furuyashiki and the People in the Film
Ogawa Pro | 1981
Living Like a Peasant Among Peasants. An Interview with Ogawa Shinsuke
Andrée Tournès | 1984
The Relationship Between Seeing and Not Seeing
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1986
Documentary’s Sense of Reality
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1987
Documenting the Heart and Soul of the People Who Tell Stories
Ogawa Shinsuke | 1987
The Sundial Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches – The Magino Village Story. An Interview with Ogawa Shinsuke
Regula Köni | 1987
The Documentary Imprinted Into the Body. Fragments from a Conversation Between Ogawa Shinsuke and Photographer Naitō Masatoshi
1987
When Serge Daney Met Ogawa Shinsuke
Serge Daney | 1989
The Theater of a Thousand Years
Markus Nornes | 1997
Otsu Koshiro in Conversation with Katō Takanobu
2002
TSUCHIMOTO NORIAKI
Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Environment in Documentary Film
Aaron Gerow | 2019
Showing Is Not Enough. An Interview with Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Aaron Gerow and Yasui Yoshio | 1995
“Can I Eat, Die, and Love There?”. My Private and Cinematic Experiences in a Different Culture
Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 1992
Statement on Minamata – The Victims and Their World
Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 1972
On Minamata. An Interview with Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Gérard Langlois | 1972
Setting Out for Documentary’s Virgin Territory
Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 1986
An Exchange of Letters
Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Claude Lanzmann | 1996
Hand-to-Hand. An Interview with Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Éric Vidal | 1999
Notes on the Struggle for the Sea. On Umitori – The Stolen Sea at Shimokita Peninsula
Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 1985
When Movies Are Born
Tsuchimoto Motoko | 2019
My Kind of Fire
John Gianvito | 2019
Publication compiled by
Stoffel Debuysere, Elias Grootaers and Quinten Wyns
Translations
Sis Matthé, Giulia Galvan, Ingeborg Verplancke, Lisa Spilliaert, Geert van Bremen, Yuichiro Onuma, Annelies Smet, Britt Stuckens and Aaron Vande Mergel
Copy editing
Rebecca Jane Arthur and Sis Matthé
Design
Patrice Deweer
Printed by
Grafikon NV , Flin Graphic Group
Thanks to
Ricardo Matos Cabo, Tsuchimoto Motoko, John Gianvito, Markus Nornes, Aaron Gerow, Oki Masaharu (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival), Matsumoto Toshio (Athenée Français Tokyo), Kubota Yuri (Japan Foundation), Yamagami Sakiko (Siglo), Sato Tokue (Kanatasha), Ikoma Yuki (Embassy of Japan in Belgium), Quinten Wyns, Ingeborg Verplancke, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Lisa Spilliaert, Annelies Smet, Tom Arents, Britt Stuckens, Aaron Vande Mergel, Geert van Bremen, Yuichiro Onuma, Nele Noppe, Luk Van Haute