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Director: Multiple Dirs
2022 / 74min / Digital
A program of short works focused on the Asian diasporic experience and the diverse ways migration impacts identity and memory. Featuring Miko Revereza’s Disintegration 93-96, in which the filmmaker, having lived illegally in the US for 20 years, reflects on his family’s move to Los Angeles from Manila; Afternoon, Erica Sheu’s moving elegy for her Taiwanese grandmother; Signal 8, Simon Liu’s eerily off-key 16mm city symphony observing contemporary Hong Kong; Will You Look at Me, Shuli Huang’s Sundance Short Film Jury Award-winning Super 8 diary film, in which the filmmaker grapples with his parents’ disapproval of his choice of vocation and his homosexuality; and Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, in which the filmmaker connects her personal history to the experiences of her family in the Japanese and Japanese-American internment camps.
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991) by Rea Tajiri
Will You Look At Me (2022) by Shuli Huang
Signal 8 (2019) by Simon Liu
afternoon (2017) by Erica Sheu
Disintegration 93-96 (2017) by Miko Revereza
Post-screening conversation with Shuli Huang and Simon Liu on Sunday, May 18th
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