WISDOM GONE WILD director, Rea Tajiri, moderated by Dr. Jason Karlawish, University of Penn Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Co-Director of the Penn Memory Center.
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FRIEND OF SIFT: Filmmaker REA TAJIRI
Film WISDOM GONE WILD
ARTS on the MIND
Sunday, April 21, 2024
4pm
Philadelphia Film Center
Seven-time award-winning documentary feature WISDOM GONE WILD returns to Philadelphia for a one-night-only special screening event at the ARTS ON THE MIND Festival! The film, was just shown on PBS’s Emmy-Award winning documentary series POV and is a poetic, non-fiction film about Rose Noda, a Japanese American woman living with dementia as she travels in time through the memories of her life.
Please join us on Sunday, April 21st at 4 pm at the Philadelphia Film Center for the screening followed by an in-person conversation with Director Rea Tajiri (Associate Professor, Temple University, Theater, Film, and Media Arts) and Dr. Jason Karlawish, Director of the Penn Memory Center and a reception.
The event is hosted by: the Philadelphia Film Society, Penn Medicine, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and ARTZ Philadelphia.
Use promo code ARTSGONEWILD for a ticket discount. Get tickets here.
Synopsis: Wisdom Gone Wild tells the remarkable story of Rose Tajiri, a Nisei woman who at the end of her life, following the onset of dementia, reinvents herself through her interactions with her daughter/care partner, bestowing a new name and identity on herself, altering her past along with her present. It is radically intimate, funny, and at the same time does not shy away from being painfully honest about living with dementia. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri puts her mother’s storytelling wisdom at the heart of this film. Wisdom Gone Wild offers a different story about aging, and about living with dementia: rather than centering a disease, the film centers Rose’s perspective, in its form and its content, telling the story of a life to be valued, rather than a problem to be willed away.
Director’s Bio: Rea Tajiri, is a Philadelphia based documentary filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose critically acclaimed career spans over 35 years. Poetic, subtly layered and politically engaged, her work advances the exploration of forgotten histories, multi-generational memory, landscape and the lives of Nikkei.
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