Presented as an annual collaboration with the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media and now celebrating its 26th year, the Asian American Showcase, hosted at the Gene Siskel Film Center, provides a platform for new work by established and emerging Asian American filmmakers.
Here is the schedule:
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 8:00PM
BAD AXE
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2022, dir. David Siev
USA, 100 min.
In English / Format: Digital
BAD AXE captures a close-knit Asian American family living in Trump’s rural Michigan during the 2020 pandemic as they fight to keep their local restaurant and American dream alive. With rising racial tensions, the family must unite and use their voices as they reckon with backlash from a divided community, white supremacists, and intergenerational trauma from Cambodia’s Killing Fields.
Director David Siev scheduled to attend.
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1:00PM
SHORTS: GENERATIONS
2021–22, dirs. various
USA, India 110 min. In English and Vietnamese, Urdu, and Mandarin with English subtitles / Format: Digital
Examining the wide range of intergenerational interactions within the Asian American community, these seven shorts demonstrate the ways we show love, honor and document our past, and engage in cross-cultural miscommunications–as well as the resulting remorse and self-reproach. Program: NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (2022, dir. Sean Wang, 17 min.), MISSILE (2022, dir. Christopher Hwisu Kim, 11 min.), IN LIVING MEMORY (2022, dir. Quyên Nguyen-Le, 11 min.), THE RETURN (2021, dir. Hena Asraf, 18 min.), LUNCHBOX (2022, dir. Anne Hu, 17 min.), DEAR CORKY (pictured, 2022, dir. Curtis Chin, 18 min.), and CLOSING DYNASTY (2022, dir. Lloyd Lee Choi, 18 min.).
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 3:30PM
NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV
2023, dir. Amanda Kim
USA, 107 min In English, German, and Korean with English subtitles / Format: Digital
Nam June Paik, the father of video art, coined the phrase “the electronic…
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