Campaign
The Carriageworks: Film Forum
10 November • 3.45pm
The Electric Press
14 November • 2.30pm
Campaign is a briskly entertaining political documentary, following the enthusiastic but politically naïve candidate Yamauchi Kazuhiko as he struggles to win his first parliamentary seat in the industrial city of Kawasaki and satisfy the strict demands of the ruling party elders. Director Soda Kazuhiro has unprecedented access as an old schoolfriend of the candidate and uses the direct cinema approach to capture the energetic but poorly prepared campaign from accosting commuters with a megaphone at the train station to trying to share a pedestal with Prime Minister Koizumi at a public rally.
Screening Details
- The Carriageworks: Film Forum • 10 November • 3.45pm • £4.50/£3.50
- The Electric Press • 14 November • 2.30pm • £4.50/£3.50