Displace Must Be The Place
Friday, Sep 26th, 2008 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Goethe-Institut
| Advance (Online) | Price | Door Sales | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | $6 | General | $7 |
| Senior 65+/ Students | $5 | Senior 65+/ Students | $6 |
| Group (min 6 tickets) | $5 |
Warning: The intersection of cultures can lead to volatile results. These short films illustrate both the joys and frustrations brought on by the globalization of human experience. At the point of impact where East and West collide, dramatic and humorous events play out in surprising ways.
Community Event Sponsor: AP/I Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP)
Filmmakers in attendance
Red, Yellow & Blue
Directed by Changhee Chun
Running Time: 16 minutes
Year: 2007
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): English
A Korean American adoptee paints her experience growing up in upstate New York using a kaleidoscope of colors.
Potluck
Directed by Louis Sweeney
Running Time: 13 minutes
Year: 2007
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): Tagalog, English w/ subtitles
For Sean, eloping to Vegas with his Filipino American girlfriend was the easy part. Now it’s time to meet the parents.
Ku Klux Kornea
Directed by Kiyong Kim
Running Time: 8 minutes
Year: 2007
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): English
Website: http://www.kiyongkim.com
An office clerk discovers that delivering mail to his ethnically diverse co-workers isn’t as easy as he thought.
Beijing Haze
Directed by J.P. Chan
Running Time: 9 minutes
Year: 2008
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): Mandarin
Website: http://www.jpchan.com/films/bh.html
A new Chinese immigrant thought it would be easy to end and start anew, but discovers something in between.
Manoj
Directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi
Running Time: 13 minutes
Year: 2007
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): English
Website: http://www.harithecomic.com/
Comedian Manoj Krishnamurthy is just trying to be funny in this mockumentary examining race representation in standup. But who’s laughing?
Southern Exposure
Directed by Susan Chien
Running Time: 6 minutes
Year: 2008
Animation
Language(s): English
Website: http://susanchien.blogspot.com/
In this animated short, a young Chinese American woman humorously recaps her experiences relocating for a job which has literally and figuratively gone South.
The State of Sunshine
Directed by Z. Eric Yang
Running Time: 23 minutes
Year: 2007
Narrative Fiction
Language(s): Chinese,English w/ subtitles
Danny and Lily leave China for the Florida Panhandle to pursue the American dream and find themselves stuck between hope and despair.