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| Sunday 14th | 3.00pm | Triskel Arts Centre |
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‘Make art not war’ is Jimmy Mirikitani’s motto. This 85-year-old Japanese American artist was born in Sacramento and raised in Hiroshima, but by 2001 he is living on the streets of New York with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre still ominously anchoring the horizon behind him.
When a neighbouring filmmaker stops to ask about Mirikitani’s drawings, a friendship begins that will change both their lives. In sunshine, rain, and snow, she returns again and again to document his drawings, trying to decipher the stories behind them. As winter warms to spring and summer, she begins to piece together the puzzle of Mirikitani’s past: childhood picnics in Hiroshima, ancient samurai ancestors, Jackson Pollock, Pearl
Harbour, thousands of Americans imprisoned in WWII desert camps, a boy who loved cats.
Blending beauty and humour with tragedy and loss, this is an intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of art. A heart warming affirmation of humanity that will appeal to all lovers of peace, art, and cats.
Jimmy Mirikitani has one of those intric-ate back stories that resists the sort of easy paraphrase found in Hollywood biopics... a fascinating, absorbing, and instructive tale, full of delayed revelations and
subtle pleasures. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader |
