The Crystal City (film)

Documentary film about the Crystal City internment camp by Kenya Gillespie. The short film tells the story of three families—the Utsushigawas from Peru , the Fukudas from San Francisco, and Eisorlohs, German Americans from Ohio—through narration and mostly contemporary footage of the Crystal City site, as well as images from a contemporaneous Crystal City government film. There is also a brief excerpt of remarks by another internee, Haru Kuromiya.

Filmmaker Kenya Gillespie grew up in Kansas, the son of a white father and mother who is from Japan. He made the film while a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin to fulfill a graduation requirement. ^[1]

Might also like Crystal City Pilgrimage, October 31 to November 3, 2019 (2019); The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i (2012); From a Silk Cocoon (2005)