Essays / エッセイ

The Lost Art of Resistance
ANPO: Art X War uses a treasure trove of excavated art to depict widespread and organized resistance to the American military presence in Japan that proliferated in the 1950s, and culminated in the 1960 “ANPO struggle,” a national democratic uprising against the extension of the United States–Japan Security Treaty (ANPO is the treaty’s Japanese shorthand).

Behind Things Left Behind: Ishiuchi Miyako
The film Things Left Behind begins in darkness. At the sound of a woman’s deliberate exhale, the darkness fades, revealing an X-ray image riddled with chalky veins.

映画「ANPO」との旅
 映画「ANPO」との旅は「砂川五番」と題した一枚の絵画から始まった。画家は中村宏。描かれていたのは、1950年代の「砂川闘争」。