水俣病患者及其世界

这是一部里程碑式作品。作为一部纪录片，第一次向世界宣告了水俣病的存在。5、60年代日本经济高速增长所带来的公害问题在70年代已经广泛地被人们认知。其中，受害最深的是发生在九州岛水俣地区的，由于智索公司的有机水银泄漏而导致的污染事件。影片以29个家庭的患者为中心，描绘了他们的日常生活以及日益壮大的控告索赔运动。影片的解说由土本本人担任。伴随着他冷静的叙述，观众所看到的，是患者们在成为受害者之前，首先是渔民，是劳动者，是他们作为人的存在和他们的世界观。这部作品作为土本的水俣系列的第一部，还标志着土本的创作风格和趣味，已经从构成主义向展现被摄者的世界观发生了转换。除了第一届世界环境电影节大奖之外，这部作品还获得很多奖项。By the seventies, environmental problems resulting from the high growth economics of the fifties and sixties had become widely recognized. One of the most devastating of these was the organic mercury poisoning created by the Chisso Corporation in Minamata, Kyushu . There, we follow the lives of 29 households who suffered mercury poisoning, as well as the growing movement to support their cause. To accompany the cool narration by Tsuchimoto himself, the images discover a human view of the world in which the patients, more than being victims, are both patients and regular people, workers, and fishermen. The first film in the “Minamata series,” it marked a shift in interest away from constructivist style towards the world view of the subject.

from the YIDFF ’95 official catalog

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