INDEPENDENCE:
AROUND THE FILM KEDMA A FILM BY AMOS GITAI
Original language title: [same]

Country of production: Japan, Israel, France
Year: 2002
Language: English, French, Hebrew
90 mins.

Japanese writer and now filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara shot this delightful and highly insightful film about KEDMA, a recent film directed by Amos Gitai, then edited it with some of Gitai's own frequent collaborators. KEDMA is, among other things, a film about Israeli pioneers. INDEPENDENCE is, among other things, a film about the people who play those pioneers and otherwise worked to represent them in KEDMA. Gitai himself is mostly absent from INDEPENDENCE; instead we see the people who play the minor roles and do the grunt work on the set, as well as the French producer, screenwriter, and soundman, and the Greek cinematographer. In a series of highly insightful interviews, Fujiwara coaxes out the relations between the subject of the film and the people who are involved on the film, creating a unique and forceful intertextual dialogue very much in the tradition of Gitai's own best work.

Director: Toshi Fujiwara
Cinematography: Toshi Fujiwara, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Music: Barre Phillips
Editing: Toshi Fujiwara with Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Marie-José Sanselme
Sound: Michel Kharat and Toshi Fujiwara
Producer: Toshi Fujiwara
Production Company: Compass Films
Source:
Toshi Fujiwara
3-6-4 Takiyama
Higashikurume
Tokyo 203-0033, Japan
conductor71@mac.com

Toshi Fujiwara was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1970, and grew up in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France. He studied at the Waseda University School of Literature, and the University of Southern California. He has edited books including HOW SOCIAL CONSCIOUS CINEMA FIGHTS (2000), ADOLF'S DINING TABLE: HITLER, SOKUROV, MOLOCH (2001), and AMOS GITAI: THE CINEMA OF EXILE (2003). He has also translated books including THE MAKING OF CITIZEN KANE (1995).

Sunday, March 30
9pm
Facets Cinematheque

FILMS ABOUT FILMMAKERS