
Friends of Minamata Victims - Video Diary
0.0(0)197220m1
Created for the first Japanese exhibition dedicated to video art, Video Communication: Do-It-Yourself-Kit, this work documents protests outside the Chisso Corporation headquarters in central Tokyo. Hazardous byproducts from the company’s chemical plants had caused severe mercury poisoning—and, consequently, a neurological disease—in Minamata’s livestock and inhabitants. Nakaya filmed the sit-in with a handheld video camera and installed a battery-powered television monitor on-site, allowing the demonstrators to watch themselves by playing back the recordings of their actions.
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- Released
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- Language
- Japanese
Release dates
JapanJP
- Premiere1 Jan 1972
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- Friends of Minamata Victims - Video Diary (1972) was directed by Fujiko Nakaya.
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