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MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST

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Experience reflections of Manzanar through dance and moving images, in honor of the works by Janice Mirikatani and VC Founding Director Robert A. Nakamura.

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MANZANAR

Directed by Robert A. Nakamura

Created by Robert Nakamura as a graduate student in UCLA’s Ethnocommunications Program, Manzanar is a lyrical and pensive documentary in which a nisei reflects on his childhood incarceration at the Manzanar camp and the enduring effects of internment on his adult life.

Out of the Dust

Directed by Brian Staufenbiel, Yayoi Kambara

Dance film about World War II Japanese American Incarceration told through ghosts who come to life through poetry.

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