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Next, the introduction of a deaf couple.
They're Australian husband and Japanese wife.
He's Robert Hoskin and his wife Yasuko, resides in Japan. They're making movies.
We are going to show his film clip here, and his interviewing too. Please see it.
ROBERT HOSKIN AND YASUKO, HUSBAND & WIFE. HE STARTED FILMMAKING AT AGE 11,
WITH HIS 8mm CAMERA. THE DEAF FILM "THE SILENT REVENGE" AND OTHER MOVIES THAT HE MADE.
Today, I'm visiting to Robert and Yasuko's place.
How do you do ?
How do you find your interest in movies ?
When I was 11 years old during at school's recess time, I found a dumped old thing in the bin -
'something strange' on it, then I picked it out and analysed it . . .
Then I caught my eyes at the small sprocket holes at it's edge for a moment, anyway,
then I rolled it up and put it in my breast pocket while heading home . . .
After I returned home, and I rechecked the abandoned film again to build-up my mind whether if that one might . . .
find me a new way to immense future. As based of my deafness life-paced instinct while I'm still 11 y.o. kid,
I doesn't know what it came from, but until I went to school hall and discovered something connected with my found item -
Ah ! It's a 16mm movie projector ! I walked up to it and glimpsed closely at it.
That has probably changed my life with it, as finding the small 16mm film clip is my very first experience involded into motion picture industries.
It gave me the biggest dream to make a 16mm deaf movie.
That's how it started me to take endeavour in the film business for all my life until I die.
What is your difficult experience involded in filmmaking task ?
Gee, bit rather tough to tell. I've casted the deaf actors with no acting experience sparked my stressed responsibility, taught
them how to performing well under my directon. I made harshly instruction to keep them pay attention to various cues of
performances that they doesn't know how to, previously, until one or two of them getting awared to cope their ability to perform
the scene well. Oftenly, I'd been ***-up at some performers' lacking pace of acting skill because due to their largely 'off-screen' lives.
Overall, afterward, they've learned fairly nice and demanded for more that left me relieved and satisfied.
How did you firstly meet her ?
While I'm in Melbourne, Australia, Yasuko came there by herself alone on her travelling route.
We met and introduced each other at Melbourne's Deaf Club, that began our 2-years dating until married in Melbourne, in 1988.
That's 7 years ago. After that, we moved to Tokyo, Japan, and living here since.
Yasuko, what is your role on making films with him ?
Right, there is no deaf filmmaker who used the 35mm film format previously, until Robert is the only deaf person who can
handle the 'unheard-of' task for the deaf communities that I'm supporting him to accomplish this.
After arrived in Japan, what is your everyday life here ?
It's really worry me ! While I'm still a foreigner, meeting Japaneses, deafs or hearings, as they thinks that I'm dodgin' at their custom attitudes.
No, of course not ! I'm much as same as others with everyday's life behaviours. Dispute I'm Australian that normally enables me to take stance on my custom behaviours
during on my early days in Japan. But I've learnt myself accordingly how to cope at the Japanese's life etiquette.
What is your thought about deaf people here ?
After coming to Japan, although I'm foreigner and deaf guy, I've experienced my anxiousness to cope with Japanese deafs
due to lack of Japanese signing communication, but Yasuko firstly taught me how to break the communication barrier from
her native signing hands. Then my communication skill on Japanese signing went very splendid thus I met ever more deaf peoples
thru simple contacts to gain my majority personal stance toward them that I wanted to.
What is your planning on filmmaking schedule ?
We at deaf filmmaking group has formed an all-deaf film production company called 'Muteki Eigekikai', established in 1993.
In there, we are making movies using professional-type 35mm film format. Two years ago, we made our first
short film called "Blue Gush", the next second film is called "Patched-Up !" in 1994.
Now we're planning to produce a new third short movie called "The Broken Bread".
I think it will be complete on this November. We're very eagerly awaiting for this wonderful film project.
Thank you very much for this event.