Renga
Movie| Title | Renga |
| User score | 0 |
| Release date | Jan 1, 1989 |
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| Director | Nathaniel Dorsky , Dena Penniston , Bud Lassiter , Erik Anderson , Paul Baker , Kurt Easterwood , Kim Tempest , Geoffrey Luck , Laura Poitras , Eric Theise , Alan Mukamal , John McGeehan |
| Production country | United States of America |
| Run time | 9 min. |
“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is characterized by being a group composition, typically in the presence of judges and an audience, with poets rapidly contributing stanzas such that each new stanza addresses only the previous stanza; there is no overarching plot development, and the overall structure is a chain, not a conventional, linear narrative… In 1989, I had the great privilege to be involved in a film renga that was produced in the graduate film seminar led by Nathaniel Dorsky at the San Francisco Art Institute.” —Eric Theise