"A dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration
of Japanese Americans is that they behaved as a 'model minority,' cooperating
without protest and proving their patriotism by enlisting in the army. Konrad
Aderer’s documentary overturns this history, telling the story of the 12,000
Japanese Americans labeled “disloyal” who dared to resist the U.S. government’s
program of mass incarceration at Tule Lake Segregation Center... Resistance at
Tule Lake brings to surface stories of dissent and noncooperation marginalized
for 70 years—ever more vital today amidst new threats to the rights of
immigrants and minorities."
Resistance at Tule
Lake at JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Japan Society
333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 6:30PM
*Introduction and Q&A with Director Konrad Aderer!
Tickets $14 / $11 Seniors & Students / $10 Japan Society
Members
From Hiroshima to Tule Lake, Films About Japan and America
By Mike Hale, New York Times
July 12, 2016
"Interviewing survivors, and traveling on a pilgrimage
to the desolate remains of the Tule Lake relocation camp in far Northern
California, Mr. Aderer shows that the narrative of stoic obedience in the face
of repression and imprisonment is radically incomplete... Toggling among
fascinating, often sorrowful film and photographs from the period, and the
still vivid anger of the now elderly former prisoners, 'Resistance at Tule
Lake' is a potent piece of history at a time when the United States is once
again feeling less than hospitable."[…]
Read the full article:
Resistance at Tule Lake: Film Looks at WW2 Internment
Tom Brook interviews Konrad Aderer, BBC
July 13, 2017
More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were held at internment
camps in the US during the 1940s because they were viewed as a security
threat. New documentary, Resistance at
Tule Lake, looks at some of the internees’ resistance to incarceration at one
California detention camp. BBC Talking Moves’ Tom Brook reports.[…]
Watch BBC interview:
Film Review: Konrad Aderer’s “Resistance at Tule Lake”
By Rex Baylon, Meniscus
June 7, 2017
"For many viewers, 'Resistance at Tule Lake' will not
be an easy watch... The newsreels showcase the complete obliviousness of the
American public’s perspective on Japanese [incarceration]. The interviews from
surviving Japanese internees are maddeningly depressing as they nonchalantly
tell of their experiences in the camps. They fight back tears as they tell
their story, yet they end each harrowing tale of deprivation and humiliation
with the same sentiment: that they stilllove this country and are proud to be
Americans."[…]
Read the full article:
#SDAFF Spring Showcase: RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE Demonstrated
How the Struggle Is REAL
By Erin Chew, YOMYOMF Network
May 10, 2017
"This particular film directed by Japanese American
filmmaker Konrad Aderer provides a deep insight into the resistance movement of
the Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, and
quashes the idea that Asians are obedient, non-confrontational, don’t voice their
dissent and are happy to be apart of the model minority myth."[…]
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Interview with Konrad Aderer: Telling a dramatic story
through real-life experiences is a very powerful way to engage people in an
issue
By Panos Kotzathanasis, Asian Film Vault
April 26, 2017
"When I was making my first film 'Enemy Alien' about a
Palestinian activist Farouk, I was looking for a parallel in Japanese-American
history. I found it in Tule Lake. Pretty much everything that he did: conduct
hunger strikes, reason with his captors, fight illegal cases on base of
constitutional principles—that’s all the things that Japanese Americans did at
Tule Lake. And they had the same kind of consequences—beating, torture,
deportation, yet they still persisted, which is why I felt this story was
invaluable to tell because it was so little-known."[…]
Read the full interview:
“Resistance at Tule Lake” at San Diego Asian Film Festival
2017
By Sam Velazquez, UCSD Guardian
April 23, 2016
“'Resistance at Tule Lake' reifies both the strength of
people and the inexcusable, illegal actions of a government that has made a tradition
of subjugating its citizens. The proud Americans dragged to this camp fought
for their constitutional rights and were rebuked for it... As a nation of
immigrants and contradictions, we must establish the fight for equality and
justice as an active goal — not a pipe dream." […]
Read the full article:
Konrad Aderer Interview
By Andrea Chase, PRX
March 11, 2017
An interviewee in Konrad Aderer’s Resistance at Tule Lake
compares that militarized internment camp to Guantanamo. It’s a connection that
I had not made before, but which is just one of the many enlightening moments
in the documentary. When I spoke with
Aderer on March 11, 2017, it was just before Resistance’s world premiere
at CAAMFest, and my first question was about that comparison.[…]
Listen to the interview:
Konrad and team are grateful to announce that Resistance
at Tule Lake was awarded the Jason D. Mak Award for Social Justice by the
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon!
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