Collections/May 2022
My Sight Is Lined With Visions: 1990s Asian American Film & Video
While recent years have marked a breakthrough in Asian American representation in mainstream cinema, there exists a vibrant counter-history of boundary-pushing independent and experimental filmmaking by Asian American artists that remains largely overlooked. Revisiting the wide-ranging film and video work produced by Asian American filmmakers in the 1990s, My Sight Is Lined with Visions spotlights iconoclastic voices whose work challenges both stylistic conventions and traditional modes of representation, including Trinh T. Minh-ha, whose 1989 feature Surname Viet Given Name Nam heralded a decade of formally ambitious filmmaking to come; Rea Tajiri ( Strawberry Fields ), whose work confronts the scars of Japanese American interment; Spencer Nakasako ( Kelly Loves Tony ), who pioneered a form of collaborative documentary filmmaking that gives young people the…
16 films — 0 on the Channel, 16 unavailable
