THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI
Sunday, April 29th
11:45am — Wildish Community Theater
With PILGRIMAGE and Panel
$3-$10 Sliding Scale [Buy Tickets Now!]
USA | 74mins | 2006 | Documentary | Linda Hattendorf
(English, Japanese with English Subtitles)
Guaranteed to pull the heart-strings, "The Cats of Mirikitani" follows one documentary filmmaker's discovery of Jimmy Mirikitani, a resilient, eighty-year-old Japanese-American man who continues to create art despite being homeless on the streets of New York City. Concerned for his well-being in the chaotic streets following 9/11, the filmmaker invites Jimmy into her home and begins to uncover his emotional past—one of Hiroshima and internment, of pain and loss, revealed piece by piece through Mirikitani's art. How this grand master artist, born in Sacramento, came to live on the streets of Soho is a story the world should never forget. Likewise, his message and life's
philosophy is one for our times and always: "Make art not war." Set to premiere nationally on PBS in May.
Official website: http://www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/
(Photo credit: Hiroko Masuike)
PILGRIMAGE
USA | 22:00 | 2006 | Documentary | Tadashi Nakamura
Tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese Americans in the late 1960s transformed an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world.
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