Remnants (レムナンツ Remunantsu)
Screening with A Normal Life, Please!
New York-based filmmaker Reiko Tahara’s experimental documentary employs pop culture images and clips of phone conversations with her brother to explore the pressures of being Japanese in Japan and the misconceptions of what being Japanese is in the West. Remnants has been screened at festivals worldwide including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, SXSW, Women in Director’s Chair Film Festival, and the New York Asian American Film Festival.
Director: Reiko Tahara
Producer: MRex Productions
Writer: Reiko Tahara
Cinematography: Reiko Tahara
Editing: Reiko Tahara
Released: 1995
Running time: 10 min.
Directors Bio
Born in Kichijoji, Tokyo Reiko Tahara has studied at Tokyo’s Waseda University, New York’s New School for Social Research and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tahara and her husband, filmmaker Max Uesugi, immigrated to the United States in the early 90′s and founded the New York-based production company MRex Productions. She currently teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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