Personal Archives of Home
Leaving November 1
This program of short works—including experimental works from a first-person perspective, documentary pieces, found footage decoupages, or combinations of all of the above—considers the manner in which migration impacts and reshapes cultural identity and memory, offering a diversity of ruminations on the Asian diasporic experience. Includes Rea Tajiri’s "History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige," reflecting upon her family’s experience in the Japanese internment camps of World War II; Suneil Sanzgiri’s "At Home But Not at Home," a stylistically freewheeling meditation on Goan independence as placed in a larger international context; Simon Liu’s "Signal 8," an enigmatic, fragmented portrait of everyday life in Hong Kong; and more. Together, these films trace a diversity of perspectives, intimate, archival, and transnational, on the Asian diasporic experience, and how home becomes something remembered, reinvented, and reimagined across borders.
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At Home But Not At Home
Leaving November 1
Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri | 11 mins | 2019
Combining excerpts from India’s Parallel Cinema movement, 16mm drone footage, and family Skype interviews, Sanzgiri’s film recounts an unorthodox history of various interlocked anti-colonial liberation movements as seen at a mediate... -
DROGA!
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Directed by Miko Revereza | 8 mins | 2014
The debut work of Manila-born filmmaker Miko Revereza, whose features "No Data Plan" (2019) and "Nowhere Near" (2023) reflect on his experience as an undocumented resident in the United States, this 8mm short—comprising a repeated shot... -
Disintegration 93-96
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Directed by Miko Revereza | 5 mins | 2017
As timely now as it was upon first release, this intimate essay film—a patchwork of self-portraiture and home-movie footage overlaid with the filmmaker’s voice-over—finds Revereza reflecting upon his childhood relocation from the Phili... -
Will You Look At Me
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Directed by Shuli Huang | 20 mins | 2022
Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes 2022, Shuli Huang’s evocative Super 8 confessional tracks the queer filmmaker’s return to his hometown of Beijing and the ensuing conversation with his mother, long disapproving of her son’s sexuality ... -
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
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Directed by Rea Tajiri | 32 mins | 1991
A groundbreaking, highly influential work by the Chicago-born visual artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri, this poetic tapestry of the personal and the political reckons with the internment of some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans duri... -
Signal 8
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Directed by Simon Liu | 14 mins | 2019
A hypnotic portrait of contemporary Hong Kong, Chinese-English filmmaker Simon Liu’s 16mm short is a city symphony that captures the urban infrastructure of his hometown in all of its enigmatic discord, as quotidian images of daily life a... -
afternoon
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Directed by Erica Sheu | 3 mins | 2017
Taking inspiration from Jonas Mekas’s "The Diary Film," Los Angeles-based Taiwanese experimental filmmaker Erica Sheu deploys hand-processed 16mm film and in-camera editing to evoke the perspective of gazing through a window and onto the ...
