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Afterbirth
directed by Jason Kao Hwang, 1957-; produced by Jason Kao Hwang, 1957- (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1982), 36 mins
AFTERBIRTH poetically explores the unpredictable relationship between appearance and identity, challenging notions of cultural essentialism with a call for spiritual transcendence. A “documentary” montage featuring white, black and yellow Chinese characters, some fictional, others real, confront the meaning of...
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directed by Jason Kao Hwang, 1957-; produced by Jason Kao Hwang, 1957- (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1982), 36 mins
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AFTERBIRTH poetically explores the unpredictable relationship between appearance and identity, challenging notions of cultural essentialism with a call for spiritual transcendence. A “documentary” montage featuring white, black and yellow Chinese characters, some fictional, others real, confront the meaning of language, ritual and skin color to realize a true Asian American identity. Produced in 1983, the cast includes Jack Tchen, now directo...
AFTERBIRTH poetically explores the unpredictable relationship between appearance and identity, challenging notions of cultural essentialism with a call for spiritual transcendence. A “documentary” montage featuring white, black and yellow Chinese characters, some fictional, others real, confront the meaning of language, ritual and skin color to realize a true Asian American identity. Produced in 1983, the cast includes Jack Tchen, now director of New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Gopal Sukhu, now chair of the Chinese Language department at Columbia University; Fay Chiang, former director of Basement Workshop, now Program Developer at Project Reach, a youth crisis center in NYC’s Chinatown; experimental media artist Shu Lea Cheang; and the director, Jason Kao Hwang, now a highly-regarded jazz violinist/composer. (see jasonkaohwang.com) AFTERBIRTH premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in 1983.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jason Kao Hwang, 1957-
Author / Creator
Jason Kao Hwang, 1957-
Date Published / Released
1982
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Racial identity, Cultural identity, Asian Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1982 by Center for Asian American Media
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A.k.a. Don Bonus
directed by Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984 and Sokly Ny, fl. 1995; produced by Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984, Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1995), 56 mins
After escaping the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Ny family became one of thousands of refugees faced with resettlement in the U.S. Their lives unfold through the lens of this stirring video diary. As 18-year-old Sokly Ny (Don Bonus) struggles to graduate from high school, his family is harassed in the housing proje...
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directed by Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984 and Sokly Ny, fl. 1995; produced by Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984, Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1995), 56 mins
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After escaping the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Ny family became one of thousands of refugees faced with resettlement in the U.S. Their lives unfold through the lens of this stirring video diary. As 18-year-old Sokly Ny (Don Bonus) struggles to graduate from high school, his family is harassed in the housing projects, his eldest brother cannot fill a dead father's shoes and his youngest brother ends up in a youth prison. Sokly shares these experi...
After escaping the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Ny family became one of thousands of refugees faced with resettlement in the U.S. Their lives unfold through the lens of this stirring video diary. As 18-year-old Sokly Ny (Don Bonus) struggles to graduate from high school, his family is harassed in the housing projects, his eldest brother cannot fill a dead father's shoes and his youngest brother ends up in a youth prison. Sokly shares these experiences, his personal feelings and his hopes as the year progresses. Ultimately, A.K.A DON BONUS becomes a story of triumph and survival from the perspective of one of America’s newest arrivals.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sokly Ny, fl. 1995, Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984, Center for Asian American Media
Author / Creator
Spencer Nakasako, fl. 1984, Sokly Ny, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
High school students, Immigrant life, First generation immigrant populations, Refugees, Cambodian
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 by Center for Asian American Media
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Banana Split
directed by Kip Fulbeck, 1965-; produced by Kip Fulbeck, 1965- (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1991), 38 mins
Kip Fulbeck explores identity and biracial ethnicity issues, focusing on his parents' relationship with each other and their respective acclimations and rejections of each other's cultures. Through interwoven narratives and media clips, this video also addresses ethnic dating patterns and stereotypes of Asian Amer...
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directed by Kip Fulbeck, 1965-; produced by Kip Fulbeck, 1965- (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1991), 38 mins
Description
Kip Fulbeck explores identity and biracial ethnicity issues, focusing on his parents' relationship with each other and their respective acclimations and rejections of each other's cultures. Through interwoven narratives and media clips, this video also addresses ethnic dating patterns and stereotypes of Asian American men.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Kip Fulbeck, 1965-
Author / Creator
Kip Fulbeck, 1965-
Date Published / Released
1991
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Dating and courtship, Racial identity, Stereotypes, Biracial people, Interracial marriages, Asians
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Copyright © 1991 by Center for Asian American Media
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BBQ Muslims
directed by Zarqa Nawaz, 1968-; produced by Fleeting Glimpse Productions and Fundamentalist Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1995), 26 mins
In the days following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, there was a media frenzy pointing fingers at the North American Muslim community. Several weeks later, Oklahoma police arrested Timothy McVeigh, a white American. The cruel irony of that historic moment inspired this offbeat tale of two Muslim American brothers...
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directed by Zarqa Nawaz, 1968-; produced by Fleeting Glimpse Productions and Fundamentalist Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1995), 26 mins
Description
In the days following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, there was a media frenzy pointing fingers at the North American Muslim community. Several weeks later, Oklahoma police arrested Timothy McVeigh, a white American. The cruel irony of that historic moment inspired this offbeat tale of two Muslim American brothers’ backyard barbecue mishaps.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Zarqa Nawaz, 1968-, Fleeting Glimpse Productions, Fundamentalist Films
Author / Creator
Zarqa Nawaz, 1968-
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Stereotypes, Minority communities, Racism
Copyright Message
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Calcutta Calling
produced by University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2004), 27 mins
A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a...
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produced by University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2004), 27 mins
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A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a stroke of luck. Adopted from Calcutta and raised in rural, Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, these girls and their adoptive parents are visi...
A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a stroke of luck. Adopted from Calcutta and raised in rural, Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, these girls and their adoptive parents are visiting the girls’ country of birth for the first time. The film follows three families – hog farmers, lesbian moms and a girl who is the only “brown” kid in her high school – as they travel from the prairie to the crowded, urban chaos of Northern India. It’s a journey of friendship among Minnesota teenagers who find their reflection not only in the children on the street, but in each other.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Family, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Center for Asian American Media
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China 21
directed by Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016; produced by Lambert Yam, fl. 2001, Independent Television Service, National Asian American Telecommunications Association and K. Bik Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2001), 57 mins
This eye-opening documentary follows four Chinese families as they step into the 21st century. Working without official permits, the filmmakers used compact digital video gear to record intimate portraits of ordinary people living in tumultuous times, capturing candid and sometimes emotional interviews. Families a...
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directed by Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016; produced by Lambert Yam, fl. 2001, Independent Television Service, National Asian American Telecommunications Association and K. Bik Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2001), 57 mins
Description
This eye-opening documentary follows four Chinese families as they step into the 21st century. Working without official permits, the filmmakers used compact digital video gear to record intimate portraits of ordinary people living in tumultuous times, capturing candid and sometimes emotional interviews. Families are small – one child in the city, two in the country – so children hold center stage. Veterans of the Cultural Revolution are savin...
This eye-opening documentary follows four Chinese families as they step into the 21st century. Working without official permits, the filmmakers used compact digital video gear to record intimate portraits of ordinary people living in tumultuous times, capturing candid and sometimes emotional interviews. Families are small – one child in the city, two in the country – so children hold center stage. Veterans of the Cultural Revolution are saving up to send their son to business school. Another couple, whose son is a prize law student, glows with satisfaction. To insure his children's future, a peasant leaves his remote village to work in the quasi-legal urban job market. A farm family near Shanghai feels manhandled by the privatizing economy; they sacrifice to send their daughter to high school. CHINA 21 introduces otherwise anonymous people whose spark and initiative are changing their country.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016, Lambert Yam, fl. 2001, Independent Television Service, National Asian American Telecommunications Association, K. Bik Films
Author / Creator
Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Economic conditions, Social classes, Societal structure, Cultural change and history, Chinese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001 by Center for Asian American Media
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Citizen Hong Kong
directed by Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016; produced by K. Bik Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1999), 1 hour 27 mins
This multi-layered portrait examines San Francisco filmmaker Ruby Yang’s childhood home in its first year of postcolonial existence. In 1997, as the long-anticipated handover of the city from British rule to Chinese authority was about to occur, Yang returned to see the transition for herself. Instead of mirrori...
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directed by Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016; produced by K. Bik Films (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1999), 1 hour 27 mins
Description
This multi-layered portrait examines San Francisco filmmaker Ruby Yang’s childhood home in its first year of postcolonial existence. In 1997, as the long-anticipated handover of the city from British rule to Chinese authority was about to occur, Yang returned to see the transition for herself. Instead of mirroring mainstream news reporting, Yang intimately explores the everyday lives of the people of Hong Kong, showing how the city’s ever cha...
This multi-layered portrait examines San Francisco filmmaker Ruby Yang’s childhood home in its first year of postcolonial existence. In 1997, as the long-anticipated handover of the city from British rule to Chinese authority was about to occur, Yang returned to see the transition for herself. Instead of mirroring mainstream news reporting, Yang intimately explores the everyday lives of the people of Hong Kong, showing how the city’s ever changing dynamics and energy shaped them. CITIZEN HONG KONG does this by intimately following five individuals who represent a diverse cross section of Hong Kong youth.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016, K. Bik Films
Author / Creator
Ruby Yang, fl. 1982-2016
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, Immigrant populations, Cultural change and history, Urban life, Chinese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1999 by Center for Asian American Media
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Death of a Shaman
directed by Richard Hall, fl. 1992-2015; produced by Fahm Fong Saeyang, fl. 2000 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2003), 57 mins
As her father lay dying in a hospital bed, Fahm Saeyang and her siblings gathered around to watch over him. The family’s tradition on many occasions, both big and small, was to record everything on video, and this was no exception. Her father’s final words were about walking through the mountains in his home c...
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directed by Richard Hall, fl. 1992-2015; produced by Fahm Fong Saeyang, fl. 2000 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2003), 57 mins
Description
As her father lay dying in a hospital bed, Fahm Saeyang and her siblings gathered around to watch over him. The family’s tradition on many occasions, both big and small, was to record everything on video, and this was no exception. Her father’s final words were about walking through the mountains in his home country of Thailand. After his death, Fahm grieved for the unfulfilled promise of her father’s life.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Fahm Fong Saeyang, fl. 2000
Author / Creator
Richard Hall, fl. 1992-2015
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Speaker / Narrator
Fahm Fong Saeyang, fl. 2000
Topic / Theme
Immigration and emigration, Yao, Asian Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2003 by Center for Asian American Media
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Do 2 Halves Really Make a Whole?
directed by Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993 and Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993; produced by Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993 and Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1993), 28 mins
This video features the diverse viewpoints of people with multiracial Asian heritages and their personal experiences in growing up as multiracial Asian Americans. African and Japanese American poet and playwright, Velina Hasu Houston, lives an amalgamated existence and encourages others to take pride in all that t...
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directed by Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993 and Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993; produced by Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993 and Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1993), 28 mins
Description
This video features the diverse viewpoints of people with multiracial Asian heritages and their personal experiences in growing up as multiracial Asian Americans. African and Japanese American poet and playwright, Velina Hasu Houston, lives an amalgamated existence and encourages others to take pride in all that they are. Performance artist, Dan Kwong, struggles with two strong Asian heritages, Japanese and Chinese American, while Brenda Wong Aok...
This video features the diverse viewpoints of people with multiracial Asian heritages and their personal experiences in growing up as multiracial Asian Americans. African and Japanese American poet and playwright, Velina Hasu Houston, lives an amalgamated existence and encourages others to take pride in all that they are. Performance artist, Dan Kwong, struggles with two strong Asian heritages, Japanese and Chinese American, while Brenda Wong Aoki uses her unique ethnic mix of four cultural heritages to intersect social circles.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993, Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993
Author / Creator
Joe Leonardi, fl. 1993, Martha Chono-Helsley, fl. 1993
Date Published / Released
1993
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Asian ethnic groups, Biracial people
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1993 by Center for Asian American Media
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Inheritance
directed by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011; produced by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2011), 27 mins
Inheritance (2012) is a personal documentary film that illuminates diasporic identity formation in the shadow of Iranian gender politics and the Islamic Revolution. Inside her mother’s home, the filmmaker excavates the detritus that cushioned her splintering family as they traversed the uneven terrains of Revol...
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directed by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011; produced by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011 (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2011), 27 mins
Description
Inheritance (2012) is a personal documentary film that illuminates diasporic identity formation in the shadow of Iranian gender politics and the Islamic Revolution. Inside her mother’s home, the filmmaker excavates the detritus that cushioned her splintering family as they traversed the uneven terrains of Revolution, divorce and eventually, self-imposed exile.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011
Author / Creator
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, fl. 2011
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Racial identity, Cultural identity, Family, Iranians, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 by Center for Asian American Media
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