region:pacific rim

Poster woman for the war against the U.S.-led TPP | The Japan Times
▻http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/09/01/arts/poster-woman-war-u-s-led-tpp
L’artiste japonaise #Yoko_Inoue a créé une affiche "papier de riz"où elle dénonce le partenariat trans-pacifique #TPP

The Japanese-born, New York-based multimedia and performance artist takes aim at society’s assumptions about commerce and culture using works rooted in intensive research. This time, her target is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Inoue has been at work since February of this year on a project she calls “Rice Paper” (“Kome Kami”), a wall-mounted bilingual newspaper addressing the trade agreement currently being negotiated by 12 Pacific Rim nations, including Japan and the United States. The deal would reduce tariffs on goods such as rice, cars and beef, and alter other policies to encourage international trade. Despite lagging negotiations and stiff opposition from Japanese farmers and other stakeholders, it remains a priority for both U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Inoue, however, is convinced the TPP would harm Japanese society.

“Who benefits?” the 51-year-old artist asks on a recent afternoon in her neatly organized New York studio. “It’s the 1 percent who control all the policies and trade. Maybe we (in the general public) don’t realize it — but the corporations who want to benefit from the agreement are very tenaciously and meticulously planning everything possible to dismantle socio-economic structures. When we start paying attention, we say ‘Oh my God.’ ”

Dommage, on ne voit pas très bien son œuvre

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The Daily Dot - The Mako Mori Test: ’Pacific Rim’ inspires a Bechdel Test alternative
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The Bechdel Test has long been the barometer of women-friendly films, but Pacific Rim fans say it doesn’t give the movie’s female lead enough credit.
n fandom, where most of the cultural commentators are women,Pacific Rim is beloved, as is its female star, Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi. Kikuchi’s character, Mako Mori, seems to be almost universally uncriticized on Tumblr, where she stars in fanart, gifsets, headcanons, fanfiction, and routine gusts of praise from female fans who love that her character is neither sexually objectified nor given a narrative arc that revolves around a man.

In the film, Mako struggles to asserts her independence despite the protectiveness of her stern father figure, Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba). She is strong, smart, and perhaps most remarkably, her goal of fulfilling her dream of being a Jaeger pilot is a major part of Pacific Rim’s storyline.

On Thursday, Tumblr user spider-xan wrote about what Mako means to her as an Asian woman, in the context of the film’s failure to pass Bechdel:

“It’s really easy to throw away a film because of that test (which is flawed and used incorrectly in a lot of ways) if you’re a white woman and can easily find other films with white women who look like you and represent you… But as an East Asian woman, someone like Mako — a well-written Japanese woman who is informed by her culture without being solely defined by it, without being a racial stereotype, and gets to carry the film and have character development — almost NEVER comes along in mainstream Western media. And honestly — someone like her will probably not appear again for a very long time.”

In response to this post, and in the process of running down numerous arguments for why the Bechdel Test can’t and shouldn’t be the only measurement by which feminist films are judged, Tumblr user chaila has proposed the Mako Mori Test, “to live alongside the Bechdel Test”:

“The Mako Mori test is passed if the movie has: a) at least one female character; b) who gets her own narrative arc; c) that is not about supporting a man’s story. I think this is about as indicative of “feminism” (that is, minimally indicative, a pretty low bar) as the Bechdel test. It is a pretty basic test for the representation of women, as is the Bechdel test. It does not make a movie automatically feminist.”

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#féminisme #représentation #mako_mori #pacific_rim

Ah ben voilà quelque chose que je voudrais voir : une adaptation originale du At the Mountains of Madness de Lovecraft par Guillermo del Toro ! (Au lieu de ça, les costards-cravattes des studios préfèrent financer un remake pérave de The Thing. Pffff.)
At the Mountains of Madness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness#Film

Director Guillermo del Toro and screenwriter Matthew Robbins wrote a screenplay based on Lovecraft’s story, but in 2006 had trouble getting Warner Bros. to finance the project. Del Toro wrote, “The studio is very nervous about the cost and it not having a love story or a happy ending, but it’s impossible to do either in the Lovecraft universe.”[25] In July 2010 it was announced that the film would be made in 3D and that James Cameron would become producer,[26] and Tom Cruise was attached to star.[27] This “was a startling prospect considering Lovecraft’s tale had long been considered unfilmable.”[27] Del Toro confirmed that the film would begin production as early as May 2011 and start filming in June.[28] However, in March 2011, it was announced that “Universal refused to greenlight the project due to del Toro’s insistence that it be released with an R rating rather than a PG-13.”[27] According to Salon.com, "Universal wants to hold onto the project in the event that it changes its mind and decides to make it later, either as an R or PG-13 movie. But del Toro is already trying to set up Mountains at another studio (possibly 20th Century Fox, which released Cameron’s Titanic and Avatar).[27]