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By day: lumpenproletariat. By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications. Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: https://asian-docs.com/
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · Feb 19
Reassessing the human: three experimental documentaries by Oda Kaori
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2h
highlight of my last day in Yamagata:
SPI (Sayun Simung, 2025)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 19h
last night in Yamagata:
Imoni under the bridge
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 1d
done
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 1d
are you there?
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 1d
me walking back from the event flooded with inputs, doubts, and self-criticism...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 1d
p.s. not organised by the festival (although supported)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 1d
not a film, but this was also one of the highlights of the festival in Yamagata:
From the river to the sea. and the mountains
Filmmakers in Solidarity with Palestine: A Gathering
Special Guest: Razan AlSalah
From the river to the sea. and the mountains Filmmakers in Solidarity with Palestine: A Gathering Special Guest: Razan AlSalah YIDFF2025 "New Asian Currents" "A Stone's Throw』 The Film Workers Pledge to end complicity in the genocide published this September is an urgent call to action for all of us working not just in film but in the arts in general. Filmmakers active in Japan will share their experiences of their solidarity actions over the last 2 years and introduce Japan-specific context to the current genocide. Inviting filmgoers as well as filmmakers, we hope to create a safe space for all to engage in an open conversation about our role to end the violence. We'll welcome filmmakers from Palestine participating in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival to talk about their films and exchange ideas about the responsibility of the international community and what more we should be doing. All welcome - no discrimination or prejudice against anyone will be tolerated. Mon, Oct 13, 3:00pm - 5:00pm @Yamagata Prefectural Local Museum "Bunshokan" Gallery 3 3-4-51 Hatagomachi, Yamagata City Accessibility: JP-EN Interpretation / UD Taik Hosted by: Filmmakers in Resistance 川から海と、山まで パレスチナと共にいる、映画人たち交流会 スペシャルゲスト:ラザーン・アルサラーフ監督 YIDFF2025 アジア千波万波『石を投げれば届く距離 今年9月に発表されたジェノサイドへの加担を終わらせる為の宣誓に、日本も含む各国の映画従事者数千人が名を連ねるなど、映画界に限らず、文化・芸術・学術の分野でも、 ますますのアクションが求められています。 映画に携わる私たちが、2023年10月以降、日本各地で行われてきたパレスチナ連帯のアクションや、その活動からの発見・課題について紹介しつつ、制作、上映や執筆活動など多岐に渡り活動する映画従事者たちと、映画を愛する鑑賞者の方たちとで、ざっくばらんにお話しできる場を一緒に作りたいです。 山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭で上映される作品と共に来日されるパレスチナ人監督を招いて、作品にまつわるお話を聞いたり、国際社会の一員としてパレスチナと共にいるために私たちが一緒にできることなどを、お話しできればと思います。 どんな方のご参加も大歓迎! 人種や性別など、特定の属性に対しての差別・偏見は許しません。誰もが安心していられるセーファースペースを共に築きましょう。 10/13(月)15:00~17:00 きょうどかんぶんしょうかん @山形県郷土館 文翔館 ギャラリー3 山形県山形市旅篭町3丁目4-51 「情報保障:日英通訳/ UDトーク 主催: 抗う映画従事者たち 「私たちはイスラエルの暴力に加担しない」 ~映画従事者による宣誓~
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
highlights of this year Yamagata
part 2:
Hair, Paper, Water (Trương Minh Quý, Nicolas Graux, 2025)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
secondo te, cosa si potrebbe fare per migliorare la situazione?
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
"Shooter's accuracy is the defeat for the bourgeoisie"
Sketches of a Soviet City (Dmytro Dalskyi, 1929)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
the first part is really good, very well shot and edited...the second part less so, I found it unfocused, and in the end it felt a work in progress (after all it mirrors the situation of the dormitory itself)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
premiere of 対話のゆくえ 京都大学吉田寮The Yoshida-ryo Dormitory (Fujikawa Keizō, 2025)
full house
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 2d
highlights of this year Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival for me, so far:

A Stone's Throw (Razan Al Salah, 2024)
Meet Marlon Brando (Maysles brothers, Charlotte Zwerin, 1966)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari, 2025)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 3d
chi ha letto il manga mi dice che sì, specialmente nella seconda parte molta storia è compressa (e per questo può risultare titubante e confuso,)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 3d
100m! che ne pensi?
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 4d
for sure!
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 5d
I just found out that shanghai can be used as a verb... fascinating
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Matt Schley @mattschley.com · 13d
My review of The Last Blossom (ホウセンカ), the new motion picture from the folks behind Odd Taxi.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 13d
Yakuza and flowers intertwine in "The Last Blossom," a story of second chances and quiet tenderness. 👉 ebx.sh/u13uaB
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 5d
hi, yes
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 5d
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Demon Slayer, quel sottile fascino del manga seriale | il manifesto
(Visioni) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiba - Il Castello dell’Infinito è senza dubbio il film dell’anno in Giappone, almeno per quel che riguarda i risultati sbalorditivi al botteghino. Attualmente il l...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 6d
New Writers On Film episode a classic #Hitchcock dissected by Jennifer O’Callaghan REAR WINDOW THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC IN HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN AGE

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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · 7d
My partner appears in the Asahi newspaper, describing the collection of interviews she is putting together of filmmakers attending this year's Yamagata Film Festival.. Please support the crowd funding if you can.

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世界各国の監督の声を届けたい　山形映画祭がCFでインタビュー集：朝日新聞
山形市で9日に開幕する山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭で、世界各国から訪れる映画監督のインタビュー集を作る資金をクラウドファンディング（CF）で募っている。インタビュー集編集長の小野聖子さんは「様々な…
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 7d
Found Footage Films, Compilation Documentary and Recycled Cinema in Japan: a preliminary study
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Found Footage Films, Compilation Documentary and Recycled Cinema in Japan: a preliminary study
This is an essay that grew out of two articles I wrote for this site last year. I submitted it for publication, but it was rejected. It is perhaps too vague and unfocused. Hopefully I will return t…
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 7d
THE OZU DIARIES (Daniel Raim, 2025)
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THE OZU DIARIES (Daniel Raim, 2025) - SONATINE
Un viaggio nella vita e nelle opere di Ozu Yasujirō: dall’infanzia alla morte proprio il giorno del suo sessantesimo compleanno, il 12 dicembre 1963, passando per l’ingresso nell’ambiente cinematograf...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 8d
Indigenous with a Capital ‘I’: Indigenous Documentaries from 1994 to 2000 – TIDF 2021
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Indigenous with a Capital ‘I’: Indigenous Documentaries from 1994 to 2000 – TIDF 2021
This is a translation and a partial rewriting of a piece I wrote for the  Alias (Saturday supplement of the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto) in 2021. In 2003, Māori director and theorist Barry Barcl…
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