Saturday, January 22, 2011

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of Shunji Iwai ARITA

The first decade of XXI century it has been classified as the consecration of Social Networks . Just last year, the world was shaken by the first major cyber warfare, from the hand of Julian Assange Wikileaks site's founder , same that captured the attention of the international political agenda, which to date remains suspense the fate of those involved in the leaking of confidential cables from U.S. embassies in place in most of the planet. In the same vein, although favored by a more friendly image of the technological revolution that has reshaped human societies with Mark Zuckerberg Facebook portrait is emerging as the business of the new century. Chosen as the Person of the Year by Time magazine, the effervescence of the young owner of a fortune estimated at 6.900 million, will strengthen its position at the top once the awards of the American cultural industries to fulfill their mandates to deck tape The Social Network as the best film of 2010, a fact witnessed the night of January 16 in G Gold wolves and potential for replication on 27 February in Oscar 2011.

If we stop to reflect on the whirlwind of events that involve the transformation to a digital world, we must start by asking when did it all start? Not to abandon the unanimous rejection of analog generations flatly refuse to change, (and in fact will not integrate the new paradigm) but with the firm conviction that the audiovisual discourse understanding the generations, pre-digital natives-we consumed during the recent 30 years, once and arguments of science fiction is our reality here and now.

Anime and technology: from Serial Experiments Lain to Summer Wars, the outsiding the trending topic

To start this thoughtful insight from the case of the anime, I pointed in a completely arbitrary since the lapse Serial Experiments Lain (Ryutaro Nakamura, 1998) to Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda, 2009). Two emblematic cases in the development environment because we love much to have to face as any other audio-visual format, through its contents, this silent revolution in principle and that today is the talk of the world.


However, this Western fascination for contemporary visual culture neojaponismo Japan, "is not limited to animation, but covers many social, artistic and cultural rights, among which of course the film. That is why before starting with the object of analysis that I drew from the anime, so I open a parenthesis prefaced with a small jewel on which professed a particular admiration. It is, in fact, the short film written and directed ARITA Shunji Iwai, one of the few directors who boarded early (but not hasty) the effects of the raid technology called the Internet would have on individuals and how to transform their social development from it.

must identify this process of change and collapse of paradigm ( The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn ), now established in part to the success of social networks, the dynamics of dialogue and feedback from Web 2.0 and characteristics of cyberpunk real historical facts, had a collective rather than personal roots. Iwai makes clear from the concerns of a girl who finally seeks his early youth pause and examine your life looking back on itself: What is ARITA? Question we also should ask right at the beginning of the second decade of the new century.


Download the short film link above, attached to the video with subtitles. Spelling, syntax and idioms are fixed by a server. If someone wants to post the link to any other website is free to do so, provided they cite the source. Arita

Summer Wars

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