Sophia University institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019

Filming in the Grey Zone:
A discussion of documenting Fukushima

Ian Thomas Ash, filmmaker

19:00-20:30, March 10th, 2020
10-301 Sophia University Yotsuya Campus

ABSTRACT: Having traveled to Tohoku for the first of dozens of times just 10 days after the 3.11 disaster, director Ian Thomas Ash will share clips from his documentaries about the Fukushima nuclear disaster which include In the Grey Zone (2012), A2-B-C (2013) and a yet unpublished work-in-progress collection of some of the dozens of oral histories he filmed in the years after the nuclear catastrophe. What meanings will be found in the footage that only passing time could reveal?

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Born in America, filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash holds an MA in Film and Television Production from the University of Bristol, UK. His films, which focus on issues surrounding health and medicine, include two feature documentaries about children living in areas of Fukushima contaminated by the 2011 nuclear meltdown, In the Grey Zone (2012) and A2-B-C (2013). His recent work has focused on death and dying in Japan and includes -1287 (2014) and Sending Off (2019).


SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
・ 「おみおくり〜Sending Off〜」, 77 min/ Japan/ 2019
・ 「父なる愛生せば」 (The Father's Love Begotten), 17 min/ Japan/ 2019
・ 「売買ボーイズ」(Boys for Sale), 76 min/ Japan/ 2017 (producer)
・ "Suturing Cultures" , 28 min/ Japan/ 2017 (NHK World)
・ "Dying at Home", 28 min/ Japan / 2016 (NHK World)
・ 「-1287」, 70 min/ Japan/ 2014
・ 「A2-B-C」, 71 min/ Japan/ 2013
・ 「グレー・ゾーンの中」 (In the Grey Zone), 89 min/ Japan/ 2012

WEBSITE
http://www.documentingian.com/
Full biography and filmography:
http://www.documentingian.com/bio-filmography/

This talk is organized by David H. Slater (Professor, FLA) for the ICC Research Unit "Heisei Becomes History" led by Noriko Murai (Professor, FLA)

Lecture in English, No RSVP required

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