San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at PFA

Presented by NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association), this annual festival is the world's premiere event showcasing works by, for, and about the Asian Pacific diaspora. We present selections from the Festival tonight and tomorrow night; for information about San Francisco screenings, March 2 through 9, call (415) 863-0814. On Cannibalism (Fatimah Tobing Roy, U.S., 1994, Video, 6 mins): On exploration, discovery, displacement: anthropology, museums, science, and Western history are turned inside out in this experimental video that reclaims a personal narrative about race and identity in the U.S. Remnants (Reiko Tahara, U.S., 1993, 12 mins, 16mm): It is not easy to come of age at a time when traditional and contemporary Japanese society and values collide. One woman's quest in search of the self. Soybean Milk (Justin Lin, U.S., 1994, 12 mins, 16mm): Work hard, learn English, be patient, and the American Dream will follow. One immigrant street sweeper in Chinatown prays for a different reality and comes up with an unexpected twist on the road to success. Some Questions for 28 Kisses (Kip Fulbeck, U.S., 1994, 8.5 mins, Video): Navigating the viewer through the debate concerning "the map of desire" in the U.S media, Fulbeck offers a new perspective in this collage of insights, anger, and frustration. Turtle Boat Head (Y. David Chung, Matt Dibble, U.S., 1992, 8 mins, Video): A powerful articulation of the experience of Korean American immigration, evocatively interrogating the viewer's "familiar" figurings of the immigrant, the store owner, capitalism, history, memory, and social tensions. A.k.a. Don Bonus (Don Bonus, Spencer Nakasako, U.S., 1995, 55 mins, Video): Sokly Ny-a.k.a. Don Bonus-was given a Hi-8 palmcorder by Spencer Nakasako; the result is a unique and moving video that chronicles a year in the life of an eighteen-year-old growing up in a tough city and having to face what at times is an unforgiving life. Bonus and Nakasako's collaboration explores the coming of age of refugee and Amerasian children.

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