Crossed Paths

In this collection of experimental works, men and women, fathers and sons, and insects and humans cross paths with moving and unexpected results. Can you trust your eyes? San Francisco swings, sways, and shimmers in Chih-Cheng's Peng's city ballet Whizeewhig (3 mins). Human emotion is nakedly exposed in Anita Chang's expressionistic collage of human and insect bodies An Elegy…To Our Small Selves (10 mins). Waking from Spring Dreams (Wenhua Shi, 2 mins, 16mm) is a lively cutout animation. In the sensual clay animation Vessel Wrestling (Lisa Yu, 2001, 13 mins, 16mm), a woman's domestic space transforms into a mesmerizing primordial scene. With A-Da-Da (20 mins, Color/B&W) Sung Hwan Kim has created a film that stutters (but is not about stuttering), a style used to explore the relationship between a Korean father and his son living in the United States. Albert Ka Ho Yu's two-screen animation Into the Air's Memory (6 mins) creates a surreal tableau populated with flying machines, fans, and lonely figures. Constructed from exquisite long shots of cityscapes and moments of personal testimony, The Circle's Corner (Kin-Hung Lam, Hong Kong/U.S., 2001, 30 mins, In Cantonese with English subtitles) reveals the cities that different people live and dream.

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