Minamata – Kanjasan to sono sekai

An Interview with Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Gérard Langlois, 1972
CONVERSATION
03.04.2019
EN

As the owner of the camera and the tape recorder, I can never be equal to the people I film. I refuse to be the filmmaker of my film, which was made independently and in accordance with the reality that spawned it.

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1972
ARTICLE
03.04.2019
EN

This experience does not come from the world of literature, it does not belong to the world of imagination, it is the very world of victims, looking into the movie camera, and in cold blood we commit the atrocity of reproducing in film what we should not even be allowed to see.