{"id":31225,"date":"2013-05-22T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31225"},"modified":"2016-11-01T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:00:29","slug":"halving-the-bones-a-film-by-ruth-ozeki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31225","title":{"rendered":"Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Women Make Movies<\/a>
\n1995
\n70 minutes
\nColor\/BW, DVD<\/p>\n

Ruth Ozeki<\/a><\/strong>, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest<\/p>\n

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Skeletons in the closet?\u00a0Halving the Bones<\/em> delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited a can of bones that she keeps on a shelf in her closet. The bones are half of the remains of her dead Japanese grandmother, which she is supposed to deliver to her estranged mother. A narrative and visual web of family stories, home movies and documentary footage, Halving the Bones <\/em>provides a spirited exploration of the meaning of family, history and memory, cultural identity and what it means to have been named after Babe Ruth<\/a>!<\/p>\n

AWARDS, FESTIVALS, & SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n