The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Skoller, Jeffrey, filmmaker.

Canyon Cinema, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bombing, Aerial--Japan--Hiroshima-ken.

Bombing, Aerial.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 min.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

San Francisco Canyon Cinema 2024

Summary:

What are the experiences that shape the long lives of those we live among? At 92, my neighbor, Berkeley denizen and Asian art scholar, Joseph Fischer, attempts to recount the life-changing experience of being among the first US Naval seamen sent into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two weeks after the atom bombs were dropped. As an unwitting witness to one of great catastrophes of the 20th century, we see Fischer examining the photographs he took 75 years ago with a small Brownie camera. As he struggles to remember what he witnessed, he is still trying to comprehend the surreal sight of the total devastation he encountered wandering through the remains of these cities. Fischer scrutinizes the photographs of himself as a young man, standing in front of the piles of rubble and flattened city-scapes in these "bizarre tourist photos." The film moves between the silent exploration of Fischer's photographs and his intimate testimony, as he attempts to come to terms with what he came to understand later about what saw and what he no longer can remember

Credits:

Jeffrey Skoller, filmmaker

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1422278152

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license