Asian Film Database
10,000 Delusions (1999) |
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6min. Short, Colour | |
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Director/Filmmaker: | Julia Kwan (Canada) |
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Summary: | Mia decides she cannot live in a Godless universe and embarks on a spiritual journey with an Eastern European Zen Master in training, only to discover that the path to enlightenment is market with potholes and the delusions are vast and plentiful. (Reel Asian) |
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100 Butches #9: Ruby (2012) |
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1min. Animation, Colour | |
Language(s): | Sound |
Director/Filmmaker: | Elisha Lim (Canada) |
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Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | A catholic convent schoolgirl remembers her first gay crush. (CFMDC) |
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100 Crushes Chapter 6: They (2014) |
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2min. Short, Colour | |
Language(s): | English |
Director/Filmmaker: | Elisha Lim (Canada) |
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Awards: | The director's feelings of envy and resentment of a roommate's pronoun-of-choice eventually evolve into delight in one simple word. This freedom allows for new embodiments of gender—as beautiful and_ strange as a unicorn, a pair of wings or a bouquet of roses. (cfmdc.org) |
Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | "When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn't know if that person was a man or a woman, and that was awesome." (CFMDC |
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1000 cumshorts (2003) |
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1min. Other, Colour | |
Language(s): | English |
Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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Setting: | Canada, Germany |
Summary: | A fast-paced meditation on race and gay pornography. (wayneyung.com) |
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15 Ugly Sisters (2004) |
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81min. Drama, Colour | |
Language(s): | English |
Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
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Summary: | 15 Ugly Sisters is a film full of poetry that explores themes of love, attraction and moral bonds between human beings. (www.oneira.com) |
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30 Day Promise (2009) |
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8min. Drama, Colour | |
Language(s): | Tagalog |
Director/Filmmaker: | Xia Lee (China) |
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Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | Disgruntled immigrant Vincent comes to terms with his painful memories of heartbreak one autumn evening. (IMDb) |
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50/Fifty (2006) |
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3min. Uncategorized | |
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Director/Filmmaker: | Jane Kim (Canada) |
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Summary: | Using old home movies and hand-processed film, Kim pays homage to the memory of her father, who passed away when she was young. |
Source: | Reel Asian |
57 Day Promise (2009) |
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4min Experimental, Black and White | |
Language(s): | English |
Director/Filmmaker: | Sharlene Bamboat (Pakistan) |
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Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | This short film is about a girl who is obsessed with her vaginal odour. She tries different common methods of getting rid of her odour, but to no avail. In the end she decides to take drastic measures. (vimeo.com) |
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5ive Girls (2006) |
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95min. Horror, Colour | |
Language(s): | English |
Director/Filmmaker: | Warren P. Sonoda |
Production Company: | Alliance/Sony Pictures |
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Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a desolate reformatory and discover they all possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution and its well-kept secrets. (shootgoodfilms.blogspot.com) |
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5x90: The Wake (2005) |
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10min Experimental, Colour | |
Language(s): | English, Korean |
Director/Filmmaker: | Samuel Kiehon Lee (Canada) |
Production Company: | Alliance/Sony Pictures |
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Setting: | Canada |
Summary: | Award winning experimental film about the author's own funeral. (Samuel Kiehon Lee) |
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60 Unit: Bruise (1976) |
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5min. Uncategorized | |
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Director/Filmmaker: | Paul Wong & Ken Fletcher (Canada) |
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Setting: | Summary: | In Wong's first colour videotape, Ken Fletcher draws several milliliters of blood from his arm and injects the syringe into Paul Wong's naked back. Focusing on the purple bruise that slowly spreads over Wong's skin, the video was originally conceived as a sort of homoerotic blood-brother performance that indirectly referenced drug use. But now after more than 20 years of the AIDS epidemic, this dangerous mixing of bodily fluids takes on a more disturbing complexity. |
Source: | Reel Asian |
7 Day Activity (1977) |
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9min. Uncategorized | |
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Director/Filmmaker: | Paul Wong (Canada) |
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Summary: | Wong self-consciously examines himself through seven days of facial treatments for acne. |
Source: | Reel Asian |
8th Avenue (2010) |
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2min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
Language(s): | English, Korean |
Director/Filmmaker: | Paul Wong (Canada) |
Production Company: | Paul Wong Projects |
Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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Setting: | United States |
Summary: | Recorded in New York City at the corner of 8th Ave and 26th St, a car in the middle of the road catches fire and blows up. 8th Ave was part of ZOOOOM, a curated selection of works that was presented as one of Wong's five site-specific projects commissioned by the City Of Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Art Program. (paulwongprojects.com) |
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The 8.5 minute Bi Racial Biogrpahy of Bianca Smith (2007) |
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9min. Uncategorized | |
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Director/Filmmaker: | Naomi Ward (Canada) |
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Summary: | What are you: Chinese? Filipino? Moroccan? Burmese? Korean? Gypsy? Guatemalan? Thai? Tibetan? Maori? Spanish? Cuban? Japanese??? Inspired by her experiences growing up, Ward reflects on what feels like a lifetime of never ending questions about her ethnic identity. |
Source: | Reel Asian |