245 Hesburgh Library (Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship)
Immerse yourself in the life of Yonezo Okita as he leaves his home in Hiroshima, Japan, to migrate to Canada in 1935. Experience Yonezo’s peaceful life on a strawberry farm and feel the shock of war and racism that affects his family for generations.
Filmmaker Randall Okita pays tribute to his grandfather through interactive and deeply personal storytelling in this room-scale virtual reality film.
Register to experience “The Book of Distance” from September 29 through October 6 at the Hesburgh Library or Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. This 30-minute VR film is free and open to the public and can be experienced sitting or standing.
Learn more about this and other films in the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies film series, Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema.
Book an appointment for the virtual reality experience.
Email cds@nd.edu for more information.
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and Hesburgh Libraries, with support from the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, College of Arts & Letters, University of Notre Dame.
