Memory and Distance: On Nobuhiro Suwa's A Letter from Hiroshima

Authors

Jessica Fernanda Conejo Muñoz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoFollow

Abstract

A Letter from Hiroshima is the second production directed by Nobuhiro Suwa on the Japanese city that was ravaged by the atomic bombings, by the United States, in 1945. The short film is a reflective game which approach to the past is based on distancing effects. The distance, understood in the sense of Brecht and counter cinema, is part of an experimental process that becomes a political technique of construction and decipherment of memory. Suwa’s work is opposed to the belief that history is something that can be narrated, since the approximation to the past is not carried out through a causal story, but by the principles of intransitivity, estrangement and narrative aperture.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank José Ramón Mejía and Montserrat Rodríguez for his help during the elaboration of this article.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.2.1520

Recommended Citation

Conejo Muñoz, Jessica Fernanda (2018) "Memory and Distance: On Nobuhiro Suwa's A Letter from Hiroshima," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 12: Iss. 2: 125-139.
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.2.1520

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