Personal Archives of Home — Short Films about the Asian Diaspora Experience

Two programs of short works—including experimental works from a first-person perspective, documentary pieces, found footage decoupages, or combinations of all of the above—that consider the manner in which migration impacts and reshapes cultural identity and memory, offering a diversity of ruminations on the Asian diasporic experience. Includes Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, reflecting upon her family’s experience in the Japanese internment camps of World War II; Suneil Sanzgiri’s At Home But Not at Home, a stylistically freewheeling meditation on Goan independence as placed in a larger international context; Simon Liu’s Signal 8, an enigmatic, fragmented portrait of everyday life in Hong Kong; the theatrical premiere of Christopher Radcliff and Cathy Linh Che’s Appocalips; and more. Together, these two programs trace a diversity of perspectives, intimate, archival, and transnational, on the Asian diasporic experience, and how home becomes something remembered, reinvented, and reimagined across borders.