Rabbit in the Moon
First screened in July 2019
Director: Emiko Omori. Documentary about the history, process, ramifications, and intra-communal controversies surrounding the so-called internment of Japanese Americans, partly filtered through the experience of the filmmaker's own family. Twitter Capsule:
Moving, detailed doc about WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans and ongoing tensions it fostered among them.
VOR:⑤
A strong debut at Sundance and then—nothing? Few innovations at the formal level, but a powerful, archivally rich intervention into still-neglected traumas.
