Join us at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 for a free screening of Akira Kurosawa’ seminal 1950 drama “Rashomon” on 16mm film! Tickets are not required.
In feudal Japan, a samurai is murdered, and his wife assaulted, but the details are unclear. Conflicting accounts emerge as this ground-breaking Japanese psychological thriller leaves the audience questioning which version, if any, reflects reality—and justice.
“‘Rasho-Mon,’ … is, indeed, an artistic achievement of such distinct and exotic character that it is difficult to estimate it alongside conventional story films. On the surface, it isn’t a picture of the sort that we’re accustomed to at all, being simply a careful observation of a dramatic incident from four points of view, with an eye to discovering some meaning—some rationalization—in the seeming heartlessness of man” (Bosley Crowther, New York Times, December 27, 1951).
This screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is presented in 16mm film as an AV Club program with thanks to Katharine Labuba, film archivist and special collections librarian of the Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Branch.
AV CLUB is an ongoing program of curated 16mm short film screenings designed to provoke discussion, create awareness of unique library resources held by the Special Collections Division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System and generate enthusiasm for learning and research.
The Miami-Dade Public Library holds one of the remaining, circulating 16mm film collections. The collection dates to 1956 and was developed to be a teaching collection designed for public programming.
