(4:17 min., S-8mm/video, color, sound, 2008/1994)
Producer/Director/Camera/Editor: Anita Chang
Original Music: Lim Giong
Production Assistant: Scott Tsuchitani
Photographs: Gerald and Helen Chan
Technical Assistance: McCrae Parker, Ron Toledo
In truth, there is no foundation at all, but alleyways, crevices one steps across all the time. - Toni Morrison, Jazz
Using present day footage and turn-of-the-century photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this film is a statement about cultural tourism and historical amnesia.
Exhibitions:
Echo Park Film Center Outdoor Festival, SF Cinematheque, Kearny Street Workshop, Imagining Place, Boston Tour (MIT, Emerson, Museum School of Fine Art, Tufts U., U. Mass in Amherst), SF Exploratorium, SF Immigrant Pride Day, Federal Asian Pacific Heritage Month, SF Int’l Asian American Film Fest, Women of Vision/KCSM-TV, HiOctane TV
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