Nagisa Oshima
Figures of Dissent
“Rather than being our own, the labors of our days are merely a series of things we are made to do by those outside ourselves. We live lives that are even more evanescent than the bubbles floating along the stream - and even more meaningless. The reason we show an abnormal interest in crime and scandal is that a life, which usually drifts by, thereby appears caught up by a pole in the river’s flow. A drowning man grasps at straws. For we find, in crime and scandal, a tiny trace that reminds us of human dignity.” - Nagisa Oshima
In the context of the research project “Figures of Dissent (Cinema of Politics, Politics of Cinema)”, KASK / School of Arts