RIVERSIDE — “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust” (2021, 84 minutes) will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 14, at 4:30 p.m. at Culver Center of the Arts on the UC Riverside campus.
The free screening of Ann Kaneko’s documentary (with Spanish subtitles) will be presented with the launch of the Manzanar, Diverted Augmented Reality visual sound bath.
Before the screening, Alexander Miranda, member of the composing team and a Payómkawichum (Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) artist, will play his array mbira, accompanying visuals from the 360-degree visual sound bath.
There will be Q&A with Kaneko and Miranda. After the screening, Kaneko and producer/impact producer Jin Yoo-Kim will be on hand with VR headsets for those who would like to view the AR visual sound bath of scenes of Payahüünadü in VR mode. The 360 videos will also be posted and released online.
At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the World War II concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles.
NPR called “Manzanar, Diverted” “a fascinating documentary looking at Los Angeles’ fraught history of how it gets its water sources.”
Accompanies the “Climates of Inequality” exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, UC Riverside, and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning.
The UCR Arts AAPI Film Series is generously supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment.
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