From Japan to Brazil and Vice-versaHistorical and Aesthetic: Perspectives of a Diasporic Cinema

From Japan to Brazil and Vice-versaHistorical and Aesthetic: Perspectives of a Diasporic Cinema


24 Tuesday
From Tue, 24/06/2025 to Wed, 25/06/2025

Location
  • Descartes Campus
  • 24 June: D8 006 – Site Buisson
    25 June: D1 102 – Site Descartes

Free



Programme / Program

Journée 1 : Mardi 24 juin 2025 / Day 1: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Salle / Room: D8 006 – ENS de Lyon, Site Buisson

13:00 – 13:30 Café d’accueil / Coffee and Tea

13:30 – 13:45 Mots d’ouverture / Welcome (Romane CARRIÈRE, Emmanuel DAYRE, Lucie RYDZEK)

13:45 – 14:30 Conférence d’ouverture / Opening Conference : Helena PRADO (Université de Strasbourg), “Des identités nippo-brésiliennes performatives” Modératrice / Chair : Lucie RYDZEK

Pause / Break

14:45 – 16:15 Panel 1: “Perspectives historiques” / “Historical Perspectives
Modératrice / Chair: Romane CARRIÈRE
  • Alexandre NAKAHARA (University of São Paulo – online), “From the Brazilian Utopia to the Japanese Dream: Brazil, immigration and national identity in Japanese Films
  • Tomyo COSTA ITO (University of São Paulo), “The Visit of the Flying Fish in 1950: Cinema and the Narrative of the Japanese Immigrant in Brazil
  • Hugo KATSUO (University Federal Fluminense – online), “Brazilian Cinema and the Japanese Diaspora: Reclaiming Borders as Spaces of Belonging

Pause / Break

16:30 – 17:30 Panel 2: “Approches comparées” / “Comparative Approaches
Modérateur / Chair: Emmanuel DAYRE
  • Kevin J. MCKIERNAN (University of Minnesota Twin Cities – online), “Tricontinental Queer, or How I Killed my Mother so I Didn’t Commit Double Suicide with my Lesbian Lover
  • Plinio Jr RIBEIRO (GEAA), “Émanations artistiques nippo-brésiliennes à partir du dialogue entre les films Saudade et Où est le soleil

Buffet for speakers.

20:00 – 23:00 Séance de projection-débat à l’Aquarium Ciné-Café / Screening and debate session at the Aquarium Ciné-Café (10 rue Dumont 69004 Lyon)

Amarela (2024, Andre Hayato SAITO, 15’) Bem-vindos from Novo (2021, Marcos YOSHI, 105’)

Débat avec le réalisateur Marcos Yoshi, animé par Romane CARRIÈRE et Emmanuel DAYRE / Debate with director Marcos Yoshi, animated by Romane CARRIÈRE and Emmanuel DAYRE

Journée 2 : Mercredi 25 juin 2025 / Day 2: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Salle / Room: D1 102 – ENS de Lyon, Site Descartes

9:30 – 10:00 Café d’accueil / Coffee and Tea

10:00 – 11:30 Panel 3: “Mémoires individuelles et intergénérationnelles” / “Individual and Intergenerational Memories
Modératrice / Chair: Pauline CHERRIER
  • Marcos YOSHI (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento), “Filming Ghosts: Fabulation and Phantasmagoria in Toshi Came Back from Japan
  • Regiane ISHII (University of São Paulo), “Sansei and Yonsei in Brazilian Cinema: Contemporary Debates in Batchan’s House
  • Tristan CHIFFOLEAU (ENS Lyon – online), “Mémoires Okinawaïennes en terres brésiliennes : l’imaginaire cinématographique du cercle.”

Déjeuner / Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Panel 4: “Cinéastes femmes” / “Women filmmakers
Modératrice / Chair: Raphaëlle YOKOTA
  • Marina KODATO (University of Tsukuba – online), “Self-representation and Identity in the Documentaries of Brazilian Female Nikkei Directors
  • Juliana KIYOMURA MORENO & Atilio AVANCINI (University of São Paulo – online), “Gaijin et Tizuka Yamazaki : de la sensibilité de la vie à la survie du travailleur”
  • Hanna ESPERANÇA (University of São Paulo – online), ““I am Me Plus my Circumstances”: Analyzing Olga Futemma’s Work through an Autobiographical Lens

Pause / Break

15:15 – 16:35 Conférences de clôture / Closing Session
Modératrice / Chair: Lucie RYDZEK
  • Élise DOMENACH (ENS Louis Lumière), “Tomita Katsuya et Fujiwara Toshifumi : documentaristes de l’après-Fukushima, en quête d’une communauté nippo-brésilienne. A propos de Furusato de Tomita et de Liberdade Elegy de Fujiwara”
  • Lúcia RAMOS MONTEIRO (University Federal Fluminense), “Tizuka Yamasaki et le cinéma brésilien dans les années 1980 et 1990”

16:35 – 16:50 Mots conclusifs / Closing Remarks (Romane CARRIÈRE, Emmanuel DAYRE, Lucie RYDZEK)

Goûter conclusif / Closing reception

Organization committee:

  • Romane Carrière,
  • Emmanuel Dayre,
  • Lucie Rydzek

Scientific committee:

  • Pauline Cherrier,
  • Alberto Da Silva,
  • Kevin J. McKiernan,
  • Regiane Ishii,
  • Élise Domenach,
  • Lúcia Monteiro

Detailed program with presentations and speakers

Language(s)

English
French