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A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
“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
A "letter film" in the form of a monologue addressed to Mayu, the eldest daughter of a cousin. Dear Mayu. I was very happy to see you after a long time. And then the filmmaker begins to talk about her own experience. Two years ago, when I had a lump in my breast, I went for a cancer check-up. Two years ago, when I had a lump in my breast, I went for a cancer check-up, which was the first time I saw my vagina and womb. The screen inserting Mayu's image playing by the river into the artist's image during the examination expresses the anxiety and loneliness of growing up and the awareness of one's own sexuality that lies ahead. The anxiety that Mayu feels now is something that the author herself felt in the past.
