Virtual Film Screening of Things Left Behind

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Saturday, January 15, 2022 (All day) to Friday, January 28, 2022 (All day)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Online via Vimeo
Contact Email: 
asia@pitt.edu

Starting January 15 see Linda Hoaglund’s mediation on art and its place in memory and history. The film will be available January 15-29. Screening is free but viewers must register to get the link.

Hoaglund’s "Things Left Behind" explores the transformative power of the first major international art exhibit devoted to the atomic bomb. The exhibition, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, featured large-format color photographs of clothing once worn by those who perished, taken by renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. The film weaves together visitor responses to the exhibition with interviews that feature Ishiuchi to create a cinematic reverie about art's potential to recast historical memory.

Sponsored by SCREENSHOT: Asia, University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center, and University of Pittsburgh National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
National Consortium on Teaching About Asia
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Screenshot: Asia
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No