NEW STUDENT MOVEMENTS, ASIANS ON CAMPUS
2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Curated by Eric Cho
TRT: 77 min.

Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Tateuchi Democracy Forum @ Japanese American National Museum
111 N. Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Program description:
As the per student public spending for University of California students decreases, the enrollment of “international” undergraduate students has dramatically increased. What impact do these large student migrations have on how art and film are taught on public university campuses? What can student films made within a visual art program tell us about a changing “Asia America”? Highlighting recent student work produced in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego, this program reveals the unique creative junctures that can happen in such contexts.

FINGER RUNNING
Diana Li | 2015 | US | 9 mins.
Two women run their fingers through each other's hair.

CHOHEE PARK
Chuxin Huo | 2015 | US | 5 min.
A portrait of a Korean American student by her former freshman year roommate.

STATUS
Eun Lee | 2016 | US | 6 min.
Rachel came to the United States with her mother when she was 10-years old. Status highlights their reasons for staying in the United States, the sacrifices they make in order to do so, and the barriers they continue to face as undocumented Korean immigrants.

DIFFERENT COLOURFUL DESIGNS
Sindhu Thirumalaisamy | 2016 | India/US | 15 min.
Described as “a beautification exercise”, the Bangalore Beautification Project is a city-sponsored effort to prevent posters and advertisements from being pasted on public walls. In 2010, several painters were employed in the painting of a number of prescribed images that were meant to sanctify these walls in a spirit that has come to be valorized as "Swachh Bharat".

INSIDE THE BATIK
Tiffany Kurnia | 2016 | US | 8 min.
A personal journey to find a Kebaya turns into a deeper exploration of Indonesian culture and history, when a daughter asks her mother to explain things she doesn’t understand.

EXCERPT: FENCES
Vincent Hoang | 2016 | US | 10 min.
Images of present-day San Diego are paired with a candid conversation among six Vietnamese American adults recalling their childhood experiences of poverty, parental care, foster care, and sibling solidarity in the Bay Area, California.

GROWING UP RED (United States, 2015)
George Fu and Emily Zheng | 19 min.
A former Chinese opera singer and teacher shares her personal experience during China’s Cultural Revolution of the ‘60s and ‘70s in a documentary co-directed by two young filmmakers - one, her own grandson.

TEARS OF ZHANG YIMOU
Sabrina Wang | 2016 | US | 3 min.
A rhythmically-edited montage of the the tearful faces of Chinese moviestar actresses, assembled from the films of director Zhang Yimou.