History and Memory For Akiko and Takashige

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and nonrecorded memory Filmmaker Rea Tajiris family was among the 120000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor And like so many who were in the camps Tajiris family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting This film raises questions about collective history questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly reimagine and recreate what has been stolen and what has been lost