PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF HOME: PROGRAM 2
6:50PM
A program of short works focused on the Asian diasporic experience and the diverse ways migration impacts identity and memory. Featuring Miko Revereza’s Droga!, a meditation on Los Angeles and American culture as seen from the perspective of an undocumented Filipino immigrant; At Home But Not at Home, Suneil Sanzgiri’s globe-trotting examination of anti-colonial liberation movements in Indonesia, Mozambique, Angola, and his father’s native Goa; Christopher Makoto Yogi’s Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai’i, comprised of footage from 34 American films depicting the director’s home state, often with an eye to exoticism, between 1931 and 2011; and the theatrical premiere of Christopher Radcliff and Cathy Linh Che’s Appocalips, in which Che describes and reflects on her refugee parents’ experience being hired as extras on Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai’i (2016) by Christopher Makoto Yogi
Appocalips (2023) by Christopher Radcliff & Cathy Linh Che
DROGA! (2014) by Miko Revereza
At Home But Not at Home (2019) by Suneil Sanzgiri
Post-screening conversation with Suneil Sanzgiri and Christopher Radcliff in attendance on Sunday, May 18th