（略）そう、結論から言うならば、本作の最も重要なポイントのひとつは、「生身の人間を展示しています」という宣言にこそあるのである。それは、マルセル・デュシャンが市販の便器に『泉』という題名を付け、芸術作品として展示した、あの有名な“反芸術”の挑発行為を連想させる。もっと言えば、それはマレビトの会という“反演劇”ゲリラによる宣戦布告とも受け取れるのである。
それはともかく、会場に入って間もなく僕は「展示というなら、徹底的に観てやろうじゃないか」という気持ちに切り替えた。そしてそこに“置いてある”１０数点の“展示物”を“ひとつひとつ”まじまじと観始めた。
最初の率直な印象。 「これって、数年前に有楽町で観た『人体の不思議展』みたいだな」 （略）
Kazuhiro Soda Master Class
Forget the ham-fisted stunts of Michael Moore and other soapbox documentarians. Kazuhiro Soda’s frank, taboo-busting “observational documentaries” immerse viewers in the action, forgoing dictatorial narration in favor of allowing the audience to form their own opinions about what they’re viewing, be it the operations of a Japanese mental-health clinic or the machinations of a local election. Tonight, Soda conducts a master class about his Buddhist-inspired, cinéma vérité filmmaking, introducing Philadelphians to the zen and no-frills honesty that has guided his oeuvre. For homework and follow-up, head to International House for the Monday night screening of Soda’s 2008 documentary Campaign and Tuesday night’s Mental, his disarmingly candid exploration of psychiatry in a society that associates mental illness with shame. -Lauren Smithhttp://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/Calendar-Jan-5-11-112930639.html?page=2&comments=1&showAll#ixzz1AElyfBpK
Kazuhiro Soda, who makes films in Japan but lives in New York City, is hardly the only documentarian to venerate the institutional documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, but he's one of a very few not to be shamed by the comparison. In Campaign and Mental, which screen at International House this week as an accompaniment to Scribe Video Center's Tuesday afternoon master class with Soda, he gives his protagonists room to breathe without keeping them at arms' length. Whether he's following a small-time politician making a bid for political office or patients at a mental-health clinic, his movies are sharp and humane, exploring individual limitations and cultural shortcomings with an unflagging eye. Viewers should jump at this rare opportunity to check them out.http://citypaper.net/articles/2011/01/06/kazuhiro-soda
