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shareDiasporous. When diaspora is not a straight line, but a skin. Permeable, breathing, living, flowing with the exchange of membranes and memory.
Post-screening Q&A scheduled with filmmakers.
In this program
Myself When I Am Real
Directed by: Angeline Gragasin | 18 mins
The highs, lows, and ambient pleasures of a teenager arm-twisted to join her single mom trying to make new friends at a Filipino Christmas party in suburban Wisconsin.
typhoon diary
Directed by: Grace Zhang | 6 mins
Compiling footage and audio from Hong Kong, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and NYC, in a sensory exploration of rain, dissociation and transness.
Swimming Lessons
Directed by: Meloddy Gao | 21 mins
A dead cousin and a feverish summer visit to her grandparents in China prompt a young girl’s search for the lessons she never learned.
Chan is Fishing
Directed by: Jacqueline Chan | 14 mins
Like a dream folded into postcards or grainy digicam footage of a home lost to time, a middle-aged Hong Kong immigrant searches for his identity and destiny in the last fish in the Salton Sea.
Au Revoir Siam
Directed by: Domenico Singha Pedroli | 29 mins
Thai refugees in France reflect on the fluid nature of time, borders, and identity in this contemplative and immersive split-screen short.
