With Shorts Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re)EducationalVideotape (Valerie Soe, USA, 1992): "China dolls, geisha girls anddragon ladies populate this visual compendium of portrayals of Asianwomen in American film and television (exposing) the orientalism andexoticism in mass media images of 'oriental girls.'" --Film ArtsFoundation Festival '92. (12 mins, Color, 3/4" Video, projected,From the artist) Dim Sum Take-Out (Wayne Wang, USA,1988): In a story based on "out-takes" from Wang's Dim Sum,five Chinese women explore personal issues of ethnicity, independence,and sexuality by comparing how they deal with their cultural and classlegacies. With Joan Chen, Laureen Chew, Cora Miao. (12 mins, Color,3/4" Video, projected, From NAATA) Daughter ofShanghai is "a zippy, fast-cut, dazzlingly-angled crime thrillerthat moves like lightning. A remarkable cast is top-lined by Anna MayWong and Philip Ahn, a rare example of Asian leads in a non-Chan/Mr.Moto/Mr. Wong 'B' movie. One of the joys of the mid-thirties was towatch the G-Men aggressively combating the illegal importation of theYellow Peril, and such thrillers invariably began with a sequenceshowing the wholesale dumping of a cargo of hapless Orientals from thesmugglers' plane. Such lightning establishing of plot and characterserved to stress the ruthlessness of the ganglords, and the generalundesirability of being Oriental. Daughter of Shanghai is a film fromthis genre. With its Italian-looking gangsters, its Oriental victims anda razor-wielding Negro valet, it should prove a field day."--William K. Everson