Many films, both narrative and documentary, explore the relationship between history and politics or ethics. This may be accomplished when fictional narrative films enact ethical arguments regarding history in cinematic form, when documentary films explicitly seek to uncover lost histories of political oppression, or films may experientially and aesthetically stage ethical experience with respect to historical meanings and contexts. There are some cases where such ethical-historical experience is explored through the specific aesthetic form of the film in relation to its narrative. Ask This of Rikyū (Rikyū ni tazuneyo, Tanaka Mitsutoshi, 2013) is one such example. In this paper, I will suggest that film can explore the relation of aesthetic experience to the ethico-political character of history, opening up ways of responding aesthetically to concrete political conditions. Ask This of Rikyū accomplishes this by interrogating the possibility of a wabi-cinema, established with respect to its title character...

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电影的重要历史：侘寂电影、力量和抵抗美学

许多电影，无论是叙事电影还是纪录片，都探讨了历史与政治或伦理之间的关系。当虚构叙事电影以电影形式对历史进行伦理论证时，当纪录片明确寻求揭示遗失的政治压迫历史时，或者电影可以在体验和美学上就历史意义和背景进行伦理体验时，这可能会实现。在某些情况下，这种伦理-历史经验是通过电影与其叙事相关的特定审美形式来探索的。问这个 Rikyū (Rikyū ni tazuneyo, Tanaka Mitsutoshi, 2013) 就是一个这样的例子。在本文中，我将建议电影可以探索审美经验与历史的伦理政治特征的关系，开辟对具体政治条件进行美学回应的方式。问这个 Rikyū 通过询问关于它的标题角色建立的侘寂电影院的可能性来实现这一点......