Special Events
【Special Events】
Commentary on the Artworks Written by Children
Children's Caption Workshop
Commentary on the Artworks Written by Children
How do children see this exhibition? As part of this project, children will participate in workshops where they will choose an artwork they like or recommend and make a caption (commentary label) describing it in their own words.
Some of the captions will be displayed in the gallery spaces. The aim of this project is to both immerse children in the artistic experience of viewing, discussing and explaining artworks and enable adults who saw the caption to view the exhibition from the perspective of children. Lacking as they do preconceptions, children's perspectives can often bring about unexpected changes to, and the broadening of, the outlook of adults. Along with the following workshop (bookings required), this project will be implemented in conjunction with school programs. The captions will be posted after the end-July, 2014 (TBC).
"Chirdren's Caption" Now Posted in the Gallery!
Period: Friday, July 18 - Sunday, August 31, 2014
* Check out our blog (in Japanese language only) and flickr for the report on workshop.
See the show, chat about the artworks, and write commentary about your favorites
"Children's Caption Workshop"
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Open to: Elementary school children
Capacity: 30 (booking required; determined by lottery)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Planning support: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Support: Bonpoint
| Bookings: | * Booked Out |
| * Period of bookings: Thursday, May 15 - Wednesday, June 4, 2014 * Result of the lottery will be sent to each person by email during the following period: Thursday, June 5 - Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
"Film Screening Programs" #1
Screening of Films with Themes of Children in Various Parts of the World
To enable audiences to enjoy the exhibition more deeply, a selection of 7 films with the theme of children in various parts of the world will be screened over 4days. Following the Screenings #2 and #4, there will be a talk featuring cast members from one of the films, and a journalist, respectively.
Please note:
Screenings will be held inside the exhibition space. While lights in the gallery will be dimmed for the screenings, subtitles may be difficult to read. Please also be aware that visitors to the exhibition may pass through the rear of the gallery space during the screening. Thank you for your understanding.
Film Screening #1
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
(Iran, France / 2007 / 81 min.)
Directed by: Hana Makhmalbaf
Language: Dari (with Japanese subtitles)
The full-length film directorial debut of Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest daughter of the acclaimed Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Set in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, where Buddhist statues were destroyed by the Taliban, the film follows the modest adventures of Bakhtay, a six-year-old girl. It both gives a sense of the strength of children facing an uncertain future and makes one think about such things as war and education.
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 19:00-20:45 (Doors open : 18:30)
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 60 (booking required)
Admission: Free
Bookings: * Booked Out
* The exhibitions cannot be viewed.
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
© Makhmalbaf Film House-Wild Bunch
"Film Screening Programs" #2
Film Screening #2
Our School
(Korea / 2006 / 131 min.)
Directed by: Kim Myeong-joon
Language: Korean (with Japanese subtitles)
A documentary film following the lives of students and teachers at a Korean school in Hokkaido. It shows the strong ties between teachers and students and explores the reasons why parents choose to send their children to the ethnic Korean school. Won the Woonpa Award for best Korean documentary at the 11th Busan International Film Festival in 2006.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 5, 2014 13:00-15:20
Hafu: the mixed race
(Japan / 2013 / 87 min.)
Directed by: Nishikura Megumi, Takagi Perez Lara
Language: Japanese (with English subtitles)
Focusing on children born to Japanese and foreign parents, known in Japan as Hafu, this film follows the lives of five Hafu whose backgrounds, nationalities and ages vary. The two female directors of this documentary are themselves Hafu.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 5, 2014 15:40-17:10
Post-Screening Special Talk * In Japanese-language only
Two members of the cast of the film Hafu will speak from experience about living in Japan, being mixed-race.
| Speakers: | Sumoto Edward (Founder, Mixed Roots Japan), Yano David (Singer-Songwriter, Project leader of Enije Project) |
Moderator: Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date & Time: Saturday, July 5, 2014 17:30-18:30
Booking of Film Screening #2
Date & Time: Saturday, July 5, 2014 13:00-18:30 (Doors open : 12:30)
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 60 (booking required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Bookings: * Booked Out
Film screening is booked out, however, will still accept bookings for special talk: * Booked Out
*On the day of each screening, attendees with prior bookings will be shown to their seats first. We ask that you take your seat before the scheduled start time. Empty seats at the start of the screening will be offered to standbys.
"Film Screening Programs" #3
Film Screening #3
Blame It on Fidel
(France, Italy / 2006 / 99 min.)
Directed by: Julie Gavras
Language: French (with Japanese subtitles)
Nine-year-old Anna lives a comfortable, bourgeois life in Paris. But her life changes completely when her parents, spurred on by the anti-establishment mood of the 1970s, are suddenly awakened to communism. Anna's state of mind as she reacts with anger to the unreasonable situation she experiences as a result and the social conditions of the time are depicted with a humorous touch.
Date & Time: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 19:00-20:45 (Doors open : 18:30)
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 60 (booking required)
Admission: Free
Bookings: * Booked Out
* The exhibitions cannot be viewed.
Blame It on Fidel
© 2006 Gaumont-Les Films du Worso-France 3 Cinema
"Film Screening Programs" #4
Film Screening #4
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
(USA / 2004 / 85 min.)
Directed by: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Language: Bengali and English (with Japanese subtitles)
A documentary film showing how the lives of a group of children born and brought up in a red light district in Calcutta, India, are transformed through photography. Photographer Zana Briski gives the children cameras and teaches them about photography as well as striving to give them other opportunities. Won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.
Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014 13:00-14:25
Bookings: * Booked Out
Time of Children
(Japan / 2001 / 80 min.)
Directed by: Nonaka Mariko
Language: Japanese only
A documentary that follows the lives of children at the Inaho Nursery School in Okegawa, Saitama, over the course of five years. The film shows how the children grow stronger as they interact with their natural environment while ending up covered in mud everyday. The rugged approach followed at the nursery, unlikely to be seen in an urban setting, is just one of the fascinating aspects of this film.
Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014 14:45-16:05
Bookings: * Booked Out
Approved for Adoption
(France, Belgium, Korea, Switzerland / 2012 / 75 min.)
Directed by: Jung, Laurent Boileau
Language: French (with Japanese subtitles)
A documentary film depicting the upbringing of the director, Jung, a Korean-Belgian manga artist.
After the Korean War, more than 200,000 Korean children left their homeland after being adopted by families overseas. Based on a graphic novel by Yung, the film combines animation and live-action in relating the emotional turmoil he experienced as one of these adoptees. Won the Grand Prize in the Animation Division at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014 16:25-17:40
Bookings: * Booked Out
Post-Screening Special Talk * In Japanese-language only
International adoption as shown in Approved for Adoption is rarely seen in Japan. We welcome Goto Eri, journalist for the Asahi Shimbun GLOBE, who has been following up on adoptions in and outside of Japan since her 2011 feature coverage on adoption.
Speaker: Goto Eri (Staff Writer, The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE)
Moderator: Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014 18:00-19:00
Booking of Film Screening #4
Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014 13:00-19:00 (Doors open : 12:30)
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 60 (booking required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Bookings: * Booked Out
Film screening is booked out, however, will still accept bookings for special talk: * Booked Out
*On the day of each screening, attendees with prior bookings will be shown to their seats first. We ask that you take your seat before the scheduled start time. Empty seats at the start of the screening will be offered to standbys.
