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shareSly background audio, synopses of impossible films, refugees-turned-Coppola movie extras. Five shorts that wrestle with shadows in the archive and unfinish history.
In this program
Eavesdropping on Jason Sato’s Brothers (1973)
Directed by Nguyen Tan Hoang
Video essay that revisits the first hardcore feature-length gay porn film, to find in its soundtrack the shadow presence of its maker, the beguiling Japanese American video artist and activist Norman Yonemoto.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Directed by Lesley Loksi Chan
The unfinished work of a Chinese-Canadian artist living with AIDS resurfaces three decades later, inspiring a portrait through incomplete fragments.
Razeh-Del
Directed by Maryam Tafakory
Two schoolgirls’ letters to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper become artifacts with the paper’s closure in 1999, uncovering a technicolor history left censored.
Hibakusha – Wandering Soul
Directed by Joel Yamaji
A compelling call for humanity’s future, this dreamlike documentary reconstructs archival fragments and the imaginary of Brazilian resident and Hiroshima survivor-turned-peace activist, Takashi Morita.
We Were the Scenery
Directed by Christopher Radcliff
A charming Vietnamese couple reflect on their journey fleeing the Vietnam War to a refugee camp in the Philippines, only to become background extras reenacting the Viet Cong for Apocalypse Now.
Dates & Times
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Sun, Nov 9
3:50 pm
