Maybe you've seen him in The Killers, The God of Gamblers or A Better Tomorrow. I'm referring to Chow Yun-Fat, the romantic lead with a gentle smirk and an itchy trigger finger. Taken by his balletic ease and confident good looks, Valerie Soe begins her newest work, Beyond Asiaphilia (1997, 14 mins), with a confession of her high-caliber esteem for Hong Kong's handsomest hero. As in most of Soe's works, personal anecdotes soon lead to social critique. Soe may be Woo'ed by the cinema rush, but still the complexities of Asian masculinity do not escape her. Using a multitude of film clips and interviews with Asian American men, this Bay Area-based artist plumbs the depths of exotic bodies, dubious desire, and the power that underpins it. Several other works, specifically Mixed Blood (1992, 20 mins), a whimsical study of out-marriage, and Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape (1992, 12 mins), dealing with media stereotypes, use a similar technique of found-footage and personal testimony to pry loose misconceptions often transmitted through visual culture.-Steve SeidOther works from Valerie Soe's decade of socially engaged video making on tonight's program: Black Sheep (1990, 6 mins). Scratch Video (1987, 4 mins). All Orientals Look the Same (1986, 1:30 mins). (corr: plus Cynsin (8 mins))