The Age of Guilt and Forgiveness

Screening Schedule

Nov 13 (Sun.) 12:30 at NTT CRED Hall 2

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Details

The Age of Guilt and Forgiveness is an attempt to look at history, particularly the burden of history in the context of contemporary Japan’s position, seventy years after the end of WWII. Mainly shot in the city of Hiroshima, this film stages a conversation between two lovers to comment on Japan’s twentieth-century history and the country’s role within a changed geopolitical situation. It also addresses the question of guilt̶personal guilt and collective of the present and the past̶and the notion of forgiving in a relationship, national history, and personal history.

Year of production: 2016
Running time: 23’
Country: Austria, Japan
Language : Japanese

 

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Director

Jun Yang
Jun Yang is an artist based in Vienna, Taipei and Yokohama. His works encompass various mediums ‒ including, film, installation, performance and projects in the public spaces while addressing institutions, societies and audiences. Having grown up and lived in various different cultural contexts, in his artistic work Jun Yang examines the influence of clichés and media images on identity politics.
Previous exhibitions include the Gwangju Biennale 2012; the Taipei Biennial 2008, the Liverpool Biennial 2006, the 51st Biennale di Venezia 2005, and the Manifesta 4 in 2002.
In Japan he is represented by ShugoArts and will be included in the upcoming Roppongi Crossing 2016 at the Mori Art Museum later this march.