postwar a sci-fi love rage is a multimedia performative examination of the duality of the original Godzilla films. In 1954, Gojira was released in Japan by Toho Studios for a Japanese-speaking audience. In 1956, an American production company released a retooled version titled Godzilla, King of Monsters!, renaming the eponymous monster to Godzilla. The American version of the film inserts a new American protagonist into the narrative with new English-speaking scenes intended for an American audience, subsequently reducing the original Japanese protagonists to background characters. postwar a sci-fi love rage utilizes scenes from each version of the film as source material connecting a 21st-century, biracial Japanese-American experience to postwar experiences on each side of the Pacific.

postwar a sci-fi love rage was initially developed as part of Glenn Potter-Takata’s MFA thesis portfolio at Sarah Lawrence College, and was further developed as part of Gibney Dance Center’s Work Up 6.1 residency. It premiered at the White Box at Gibney on March 5-7, 2020.

Created & Performed by Glenn Potter-Takata
Sound Composition & Video Design by Glenn Potter-Takata
Lighting Design by Anthony Fernandes
Photography by Scott Shaw

postwar a sci-fi love rage was created with support from Gibney, with funds provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.