Virtually Asian
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Leaving November 1
Directed by Astria Suparak | 3 mins | 2021
"Virtually Asian" is a short video essay that looks at how white science fiction filmmakers fill the backgrounds of their futuristic worlds with hollow Asian figures — in the form of video and holographic advertisements — while the main cast (if not the entirety of their fictional universe’s population) is devoid of actual Asian people.
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