Framed

Overview

Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S. National Film Archive. These staged films, produced by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), captured a fictional idealized life of Japanese Americans in the American concentration camps during World War II. More than a hundred thousand innocent civilians of Japanese descent were incarcerated solely based on their ancestry. To legitimize the abrogation of civil rights, the WRA produced this wartime propaganda. The second element is the slide show in which the still images reframe the raw material of the WRA films.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1989

Original language

English

Director

Norman Yonemoto,Bruce Yonemoto

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6733532