The Guardian
Erica: Man Made
Erica is 23. She has a beautiful, neutral face and speaks in synthesised voice. She has 20 degrees of freedom but can't move her hands yet. Hiroshi Ishiguro is her father and the bad boy of Japanese robotics. Together they will redefine...
Langfocus
The Complexity of Kanji
This video is all about Japanese Kanji and some of their features and complexities that make them both mystifying and fascinating. Special thanks to Will Groundwater for his help with research and writing for this video. Until now I've...
The Cynical Historian
Pearl Harbor | Based on a True Story
Why do people hate Pearl Harbor (2001) so much more than anything else? Why are other movies this bad historically beloved classics to some people, whereas this movie is so easily relegated to the dustbin. If anything, I’d say it’s more...
Curated Video
Home Sweet Home The World Over 1932
Homes around the world which illustrate the song "Home Sweet Home". East Hampton NY, John Howard Payne homestead, windmill, Ceylon, thatched huts, native huts, straw roofs, woman holds baby, Ireland fishing village, stone huts, Galway,...
Curated Video
New Horizons - National Parks, 1970s
Pan Am film about U.S. National Parks in the late 1960s. Narration in Japanese. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license...
Curated Video
Farmers and Fishermen of Japan, 1950s
A film about fishing and farming in a small Japanese village at the foot of Mt Fuji. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license...
The Atlantic
Buddhist Parents: Expectations and Finding a Purpose in Life
Finding a path in life is a tall order for anyone. But when you’re the son of a Buddhist monk, discovering your purpose can seem even more daunting. In her short documentary Sit, Yoko Okumura tells the story of her father, the Japanese...
The Atlantic
The Truth About Wasabi
Have you ever eaten wasabi? If you answered “yes” to that question, you are likely mistaken. Most sushi eaters—even in Japan—are actually being served a mixture of ground horseradish and green food coloring splashed with a hint of...
Tate
Raqib Shaw – ‘Taking Craft to a Crazy, Romantic Extreme’ | TateShots
Raqib Shaw is an Indian-born, London-based artist whose extraordinary paintings feature rich colours and intricate detail. The artist’s works evoke the Old Masters, such as Hans Holbein and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as reflecting the...
Tate
Susan Norrie – 'I'm Interested in Life and Politics' | Tate
Susan Norrie is an Australian artist based in Sydney, whose work is a combination of photography, film and documentary shown in large-scale multimedia installations. Her work, often set in the Asia-Pacific, explores the relationship...
Tate
James Richards | Turner Prize Nominee 2014 | TateShots
James Richards, a Turner Prize 2014 nominee, talks about the diverse ways of image-making as well as the original sound compositions he uses in his work, during this film shot at the Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire. “I feel it has more...
Tate
Daido Moriyama – In Pictures | Tate
Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes...
Tate
Ei Arakawa | The Tanks
New York-based Japanese artist Ei Arakawa creates a series of collaborative performances and actions during his week residency at the Tanks, Tate Modern. In this film, we meet the artist whose work takes inspiration from the Jikken Kobo...
Tate
Yayoi Kusama – Obsessed with Polka Dots | Tate
The nine decades of artist Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating...
Creators
Takashi Murakami on Jellyfish Eyes, Nuclear Monsters, and Artistic Influences
Takashi Murakami's first live-action feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, has been ten years in the making. The Creators Project sits down with the legendary Japanese artist to discuss the filmmaking process, advances in CGI, and his overall...
The British Museum
Making beauty: Noda Tetsuya
This series celebrates the work of living Japanese artists and craftspeople. Noda Tetsuya is an extraordinary printmaker, who since the 1960s he has been creating prints under the title ‘diary’. Now comprised of over 500 prints, these...
Periodic Videos
FOUR new elements (inc Japonicium and Moscovium?) - Periodic Table of Videos
UPDATE Nihonian https://youtu.be/-HcSEKuYGM8 Moscovium https://youtu.be/ewQAJtbgr7w Tennessine https://youtu.be/1RGlXh9eC5E Oganesson https://youtu.be/VMv44bIBdQI Chemistry officials have given the go-ahead to name the final four...
Periodic Videos
New Elements Named - Periodic Table of Videos
New names are proposed for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118. They are Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts) and Oganesson (Og). More from us on synthetic elements... Predicting Moscovium: https://youtu.be/Oy8ZMFXS_5E Making heavy...
Barbican Centre
Architecture on Stage: Kazuyo Sejima
Renowned architect Kazuyo Sejima explores the relationship between the individual and Japan's advanced information society as she revisits domestic projects, looking at the principles behind key houses such as House in Plum Grove (2003),...
Curated Video
Assam in 1947
Part of India on Film: 1899 – 1947 This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player...
Curated Video
Sundarbans in 1935
Part of India on Film: 1899 – 1947 This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player...
Curated Video
The Sea in Their Blood (1983) - extract
This early Peter Greenaway/Michael Nyman collaboration is nominally a COI-commissioned documentary about Britain's coastline, but you'd guess the director and composer in a millisecond. It's a veritable encyclopaedia of marine imagery,...
Curated Video
Get Outside!
Humans today spend historical, record-setting amounts of time inside and staring at screens. But, studies show that spending valuable time outside every day can boost our moods, energy and overall health. So stop watching this video and...
The March of Time
Darryl F. Zanuck
MOT 1943: FOX STUDIOS: US Officers walking on lot by 'Stage 3' INT Film vault w/ soldiers working two officers looking over papers. CU Film cans of confiscated 'Japanese News'. Officers in screening room Anatole Litvak (not confirmed) on...