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Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama explores the artistic journey of B.C. born photographer Tamio Wakayama, who, after being interned during WWII, faced his racialized identity by joining the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s American civil rights movement. He mastered dark room photography and gained courage to address his family's experiences with racism. In Vancouver, he documented the disappearing experiences of the Japanese Canadian community. Featuring nine artists, activists, and friends, the documentary highlights Wakayama's legacy and connects his work to Vancouver's early art activism and its links to the civil rights movement, shaping Asian Canadian identity politics.
Director Biography - Cindy Mochizuki
Cindy Mochizuki is a visual artist and a film maker and creates multi-media installation, audio fiction, performance, animation, drawings and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Burrard Arts Foundation, Richmond Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and Yonago City Museum. Her most recent multi-media installations Tides & Moons: Herring Capital (12 minute animation, 2023) and Autumn Strawberry (60 minute animation, 2021) explore the labour of Japanese Canadian labourers in the industries of berry farming and herring salteries. Her artistic practice and process integrates memory work, oral histories, public archives and ephemera found in familial collections. She has received the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and has received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020). She has worked as a scenographer, dramaturge, and animation design for theatre and dance companies including Theatre Replacement, Little Onion Puppet Co. Lisa Mariko Gelley, Rumble Theatre/Veronique West, Sophia Wolfe, Dreamwalker Dance Company, the Arts Club and Theatre Calgary.
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama explores the artistic journey of B.C. born photographer Tamio Wakayama, who, after being interned during WWII, faced his racialized identity by joining the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s American civil rights movement. He mastered dark room photography and gained courage to address his family's experiences with racism. In Vancouver, he documented the disappearing experiences of the Japanese Canadian community. Featuring nine artists, activists, and friends, the documentary highlights Wakayama's legacy and connects his work to Vancouver's early art activism and its links to the civil rights movement, shaping Asian Canadian identity politics.
Director Biography - Cindy Mochizuki
Cindy Mochizuki is a visual artist and a film maker and creates multi-media installation, audio fiction, performance, animation, drawings and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Burrard Arts Foundation, Richmond Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and Yonago City Museum. Her most recent multi-media installations Tides & Moons: Herring Capital (12 minute animation, 2023) and Autumn Strawberry (60 minute animation, 2021) explore the labour of Japanese Canadian labourers in the industries of berry farming and herring salteries. Her artistic practice and process integrates memory work, oral histories, public archives and ephemera found in familial collections. She has received the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and has received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020). She has worked as a scenographer, dramaturge, and animation design for theatre and dance companies including Theatre Replacement, Little Onion Puppet Co. Lisa Mariko Gelley, Rumble Theatre/Veronique West, Sophia Wolfe, Dreamwalker Dance Company, the Arts Club and Theatre Calgary.
