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Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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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 domestic life of an Asian neighborhood, in the process exploring cross-generational memory, diasporic identity, and the idea of connection to home.
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