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| Showtimes | Sat March 13 3:15 PM / KAB313D |
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In the Egyptian myth, when Isis sets out to find the scattered fragments of her murdered brother/husband Osiris, she is compelled to remember him in order to piece his body together. Through active remembering, she gives him wholeness and eternal life. This trio of introspective films aptly illustrates the process of gathering—be it through archival images, intimate interviews or artwork—and a remembering unique to each maker’s own quest for understanding and wholeness. TRT: 90 mins
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USA, 1998, 30 mins, 16mm, color/b&w, English & Taiwanese w/e.s.;
Director Jean CHENG (in person)
The filmmaker, a second-generation Taiwanese American, travels to Taiwan to interview her uncle and to reflect on colonialism, culture, memory, identity, and nationhood. By traveling, she gathers the pieces of herself and Taiwan that illuminate the precarious, yet faithful relationship between an individual and a country.
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Canada, 1998, 30 mins, 35mm, color, English;
Director WANG Shui-Bo
Original and provocative artwork guides us through the memories of an artist’s life in China during the historical upheavals of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Each moment in the present becomes a cause for remembering.
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USA/Iran, 1998, 30 mins, video, color, English & Farsi w/e.s.;
Director Persheng SADEGH-VAZIRI (in person)
Through interviews with family members and a return trip to Iran, the maker attempts to mend an increasingly fractured identity. In doing so, she discovers missing connections to the past and is greeted by "1,000 thorns....Yet there is no path without an end."
—Anita Chang
Presented with Society of Taiwanese
Americans–SF Bay