{"id":2554,"date":"2025-04-13T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:51:36","slug":"cosmic-rays-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/cosmic-rays-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Rays Review: File No. 2304"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-68869bb8\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-68869bb8\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-2e2ac682\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-2e2ac682\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-2e2ac682\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-349a7cc7\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-349a7cc7\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\"><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-d277fcf6\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-d277fcf6\"><p>\"A.S.M. Kobayashi also attends carefully to the object in File No. 2304, named for the government record kept on the filmmaker\u2019s great-grandfather, who had, with other Japanese-Canadian citizens, been involuntarily interned during the Second World War. Kobayashi briskly scans through microfilm that itemizes objects seized from the household: toys, a dining table, a stuffed pheasant. \u201cThe Kobayashis were robbed by bureaucrats,\u201d she reflects. \u201cTheir dispossession was neatly organized in memorandums, diagrams, forms, reports, and charts.\u201d From within the cold rationalization of racist persecution, the filmmaker reconstructs something of a family history. She looks to recognizable ear shapes in photographs, a child\u2019s harmonica that might have been the same as one that belonged to her aunt, and matches them to their present day manifestation: the site of the family home, now a parking lot, and her smiling aunt with a harmonica pressed to her lips. In revealing how a family\u2019s history was translated into typed numbers and letters by the state, and filed away in a vast archive, Kobayashi also offers possibilities for its retrieval, its surprisingly vivid details still intact, if you know how to look.\"<\/p><p>\u2014Genevieve Yue<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicraysfilmfest.com\/reviews-of-the-2025-cosmic-rays-film-festival\/\">Read the full review here.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-e4d3bfb9\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-e4d3bfb9\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-a3da545f\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-a3da545f\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-a3da545f\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-52726104\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-52726104\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-b212c414\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-b212c414\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-b212c414\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A.S.M. Kobayashi also attends carefully to the object in File No. 2304, named for the government record kept on the filmmaker\u2019s great-grandfather, who had, with other Japanese-Canadian citizens, been involuntarily interned during the Second World War. Kobayashi briskly scans through microfilm that itemizes objects seized from the household: toys, a dining table, a stuffed pheasant.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/cosmic-rays-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cosmic Rays Review: File No. 2304<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}