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Afterbirth /

Afterbirth poetically explores the unpredictable relationship between appearance and identity, challenging notions of cultural essentialism with a call for spiritual transcendence. A "documentary" montage featuring white, black and yellow Chinese characters, some fictional, others real, co...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hwang, Jason (Director, Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Chinese
Language Notes:In Chinese and English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : Center for Asian American Media, 1982.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Interviews.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Entretiens.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Identité ethnique.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
interviews.
documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Interviews
Short films
Documentary films.
Interviews.
Short films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Afterbirth poetically explores the unpredictable relationship between appearance and identity, challenging notions of cultural essentialism with a call for spiritual transcendence. A "documentary" montage featuring white, black and yellow Chinese characters, some fictional, others real, confront the meaning of language, ritual and skin color to realize a true Asian American identity. Produced in 1983, the cast includes Jack Tchen, now director of New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Gopal Sukhu, now chair of the Chinese Language department at Columbia University; Fay Chiang, former director of Basement Workshop, now Program Developer at Project Reach, a youth crisis center in NYC's Chinatown; experimental media artist Shu Lea Cheang; and the director, Jason Kao Hwang, now a highly-regarded jazz violinist/composer. (see jasonkaohwang.com) Afterbirth premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in 1983.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed May 27, 2021).
Physical Description:1 online resource (36 minutes)
Playing Time:00:35:53