“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
Directed by Erik Anderson and Laura Poitras and Kim Tempest and Paul Baker and Kurt Easterwood and Nathaniel Dorsky and Dena Penniston and Bud Lassiter and Geoffrey Luck and Eric Theise and Alan Mukamal and John McGeehan
