Mary & myself / National Film Board of Canada presents ; written, directed and animated by Sam Decoste ; producer, Annette Clarke.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Decoste, Sam, film director, screenwriter, animator.

Clarke, Annette, film producer.

Thompson, Jia Tsu, narrator.

National Film Board of Canada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ensler, Eve, 1953- Vagina monologues.

Ensler, Eve.

Comfort women--Asia.

Comfort women.

Asia.

Genre:

Animated films.

Short films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (7 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Mary and myself

Place of Publication:

[Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Mary & Myself is a story within a story, a meta-narrative about two Chinese Canadian women making their theatrical debut playing comfort women in The Vagina Monologues. Fusing activism and performance, this short animated documentary honours the thousands of girls and women from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines who were forced into sexual slavery by providing comfort to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese military during the 1930s and 40s.

Participant:

Narration, Jia Tsu Thompson.

Credits:

Original music and sound design, Judith Gruber-Stitzer ; dialogue editors, Tristan Capacchione, Tom Elliot.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, c2013; previously released in 2014.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 30, 2015).

Publisher Number:

nf-mary Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.