When you see mountain, it is mountain
When you see ocean, it is oceanWhen you see mountain, it is not mountain
When you see ocean, it is not oceanWhen you see mountain, it is mountain again
When you see ocean, it is ocean again~ ~ ~
Anita Chang recently completed a feature documentary, which Filmmaker Scott Stark exclaims is “Heartbreaking, moving, hopeful…” Click on Joyful Life to learn more!
From May 1 - August 23, 2009 the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will showcase One Hundred Eggs a Minute as part of its Present Tense Biennial exhibition. Visit www.c-c-c.org for more details.
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Guiliana: What should I use my eyes for? To look at what?
Corrado: You wonder what to look at. I wonder how to live. Same thing.
-Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, 1964
In honor of the recent passing on April 10, 2009, of a very special mentor…
South
BY DEBORAH DIGGES
A certain time of day, later afternoon, the sun moved over,
cooler now. I like to sit and watch the shadows of my trees
on yellow lawn. Much better than the trees themselves.
A tree will take you in, flush riot of needles light burst, the white pine
grown through sycamore. My heart is pounding. Leaves
exhausting. Bigger than my hand. I could lay them over
my deads’ faces. And never understand why I was left alive
to brood as such far north on a back porch. How did I come here?
Summer’s short. The sun moves like a ghost ship.
My god, they’ll all come down, how many million, million.
Don’t think of it. Look at the shadows brimming light
that undulate a dark, soft specificity, a southern garden
early spring, mimosa, rhododendron. It’s where my birds
come from and soon will be returning, monarchs, seed spores,
western winds, my longing. I want to lie here till I’m blank
where shadows were, my hair fanned out and round here fallen.
Not that I want to die, only roll over, thrust my hands
into the earth and touch your shadow, Summer. Father.
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62 Years and 6500 Miles Between screened as part of the 9th Annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival last October.
My students premiered their graduation digital film, Ancestor Says, this past summer. Click here for more info!
Co-presenter, First nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s best known award-winning documentary, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance at the 4th Annual Iron Horse Film Festival, June 2008
In January, UC Irvine Film and Video Center presented 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between, as part of its Transnational Documentary Series. Check www.filmandvideocenter.com for more details.
She Wants to Talk to You screened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film and Media Arts at the NMWA Theater in Washington, D.C., September 2007
Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presented In a heartbeat: best of APAture, featuring an excerpt from 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between, August 2007
In December 2006, Anita Chang and collaborating artist, Steve Fujimura, completed a multimedia installation entitled ETHNICITY, at the Creative Culture Park of Hualien, Taiwan.
Through black and white photographic portraits and a projected video loop, this multimedia installation situated in an old wine factory built during the Japanese occupation asks viewers to contemplate varied notions of ethnicity.
For more information, visit http://2006hweilan.blogspot.com/
Lecturer, “Did the Subaltern Speak?: The Making of Joyful Life,” Graduate Institute for Taiwanese Ethno-Development, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, October 2006
62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between screened at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. For more info, check out www.vaff.org
An elegy to our small selves screened in Taipei, as part of the Interdisciplinary Experimental Shorts VI: Asian Selections program, of the Women Make Waves Film Festival. For details, visit:www.wmw.com.tw/older/2006
62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between screened at the New York Public Library as part of the 2006 New York Taiwan Women’s Film Festival
2006 National Tour of 62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between, Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw
2006 National Tour of 62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between, New York Asian American International Film Festival, www.asiancinevision.org/nationaltour.html
Guest Artist, Taiwanese Cultural Festival, San Francisco, May 2006
Curator, “Aftershocks: Experimental Films & Animation from Taiwan,” San Francisco Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, May 2006
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA, April 2006
Speaker, Taiwanese American Women in Film, North American Taiwanese Women’s Association, Houston, TX, April 2006
Lecturer, Asian American Culture course, San Francisco State University, CA, February 2006
Lecturer, Imagining Place Screening, Roundtable at Bunun Tribal School, Yu-li, Taiwan, November 2005
Lecturer, “Perpetual Outsider,” National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, November 2005
Lecturer, Documentary Production, University of California Santa Cruz, November 2005
Speaker, Taiwanese-American Citizens League, Los Angeles, August 2005
Lecturer, Documentary Journalism, Television School of Communication University of China, Beijing, June 2005
Lecturer, Tainan University of Arts, Taiwan, April 2005
Lecturer, Graduate Film Seminar, San Francisco State University, March 2005