Asian Film Database

Obits (1998)
95min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Rea Tajiri, Justin Lin, Michael Idemoto, Eric Nakamura, & Chris Chan Lee (USA)
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Summary:	Obits 1- Little Murders: A surreal musical short that takes place New Years Eve 1997, Obits 2- Breezes: A momentary fling in the cirt of Las Vegas. Obits 3- Enter the Drag/Drag On: Bruce Lee! Interviews with Bruce's daughter. Obits 4- America 0 of 30 (Letters to Wendi): A young man, returning home, starts from the beginning and finds out that a few things have changed. Obits 5- Get-The-Digits: Rose moves from the Midwest to LA and finds romance. A love story about solutde, revenge and death. (Reel Asian)
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The Oblivion & The Blind (2007)
2min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Indy Mochizuki (Canada)
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Summary:	Inspired by the Japanese folk story of miminashi hoichi, a blind lute player, and the hokusai print blind men examining an elephant, this animation unfolds through a series of tangled memories and stories.
Source:	Reel Asian

Ode to a Post-it Note (2010)
5min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada)
Production Company:	Meditating Bunny Studio
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	On a cluttered office desk plastered with Post-it Note to do lists, one little Post-it Note escapes on an incredible journey of self-discovery to find his father. (www.meditatingbunny.com)
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Off Beat (2013)
6min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Nicole Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	A young woman tries to live like Jack Kerouac but finds trouble separating fact from fiction.
Source:	Reel Asian

The Offering (1999)
10min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Lee (Canada)
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Summary:	Without dialogue or music and shot in cinematic 35mm, The Offering centers on the evolution of love and friendship between a monk and the novice who comes into his life. (Reel Asian)
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Officer Tuba Meets The Happy Ghost (2011)
-min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	soJin Chun (Canada)
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Summary:	soJin Chun combines characters appropriated from two Hong Kong films and digitally rotoscopes them into contemporary Super 8mm film footage shot in São Paulo and Toronto. Pulled from their Hong Kong settings, these characters are recast as Koreans, playing with western perceptions of Asian identity. The ruptures and continuity of culture within diasporic communities frame these figures displaced in time, space, language, and culture. Chun builds a small cinema within the gallery, complete with illuminated film poster, but the physical form of the cinema—its narrative conventions, framing, and representative structure—is broken.
Source:	Reel Asian

The Official Guide to Watching A Saturday Night Hockey Game (For Intermediates) (2007)
8min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Tak Koyama (Canada)
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Summary:	Illustrating how and how not to properly prepare for a Saturday night hockey game, this animation is a hilarious take on how our celebrated mass cultural phenomenon plays out in the home.
Source:	Reel Asian

The Offspring (1966)
90min. Drama, romance, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	David Secter (Canada)
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Summary:	A Canadian man works as a stagehand in Toronto and falls in love with a Chinese singer of the visiting Peking Opera. (IMDB)
Source:	Reel Asian

Of Shifting Shadows (2000)
90min. Narrative, Colour
Language(s):	English, Farsi
Director/Filmmaker:	Gita Hashemi (Iran)
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Awards:	Independent Projects Award, Baddeck International New Media Festival (2001)
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Returning to the 1979 Iranian Revolution through an exilic journey in memory and history, it is an interactive hypermedia narrative primarily in English. The narrative is constructed in 48 segments, layered with video (19 minutes), audio (45 minutes), animated text (46 segments) and graphics (205 plates), and original and reconstructed archival material (all in public domain) in English and Farsi. It combines storytelling, documentary narration, visual arts, performance and visual poetry in a converged environment. The overall viewing time is between 1.5 to 2.5 hours. The viewer interacts with the piece through the mouse. The interactive experience has a haptic character as the interface diminishes the dominance of technology to prioritize content. (Gita Hashemi)
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Off Road Event #1 (1999)
35min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jinhan Ko
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Setting:	Canada
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The Offering (1999)
10min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Lee (Hong Kong)
Production Company:	Ganymedia
Trailer/Excerpt/Film:	Film
Awards:	71 awards
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Without dialogue or music and shot in cinematic 35mm, The Offering centres on the evolution of love and friendship between a monk and the novice who comes into his life. (Reel Asian)
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Ohm-Ma (2002)
6min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ruthann Lee (Canada)
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Awards:	Emerging Artist Award, Toronto International Reel Asian Film and Video Festival, 2002
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Using older photographs of her mother's youth, super-8 footage of Toronto's Koreatown, along with images of her own present-day life, this intimate narrative video-letter critically explores issues of love, gender, race, sexuality and national identity by a young queer-identified Korean-Canadian woman. (Vtape)
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Ombres De Soie (Shades of Silk) (1978)
59min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Mary Stephen (Canada and France)
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Summary:	Mary Stephen's first feature film succinctly describes her tale about two Chinese women, one of whom is aptly acted by Stephen, in Indochina in the 1930's, who are trying to preserve their love and friendship despite the rapid pace in which their lives are moving apart.
Source:	Reel Asian

One Big Hapa Family (2010)
85min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada)
Production Company:	Meditating Bunny Studio
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	After a realization at a family reunion, half Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents' generation. One Big Hapa Family challenges our perceptions of purity and makes us question if mixing is the end of multiculturalism as we know it. (www.meditatingbunny.com)
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One Hundred Eggs a Minute (1996)
23min. Documentary, Black & White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Anita Chang (USA)
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Setting:	USA
Summary:	An Asian American woman recalls her childhood as a part of a family with a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco which has since become a garage. (Reel Asian)
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One If By Sea, Two If By Sea (1982)
Music Video
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	This early music video was shot in collaboration with the all-girl punk group, "Fifth Column". (midionodera.com)
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One Night in Heaven (East End Remix) (1995)
6min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung (Canada)
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Summary:	The ingenious riff othe complexities of power and sexual image making should be mandatory viewing for anyone inclined to justify censorship on the grounds of objectification. (Reel Asian)
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Ooooo Canada (2010)
29min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Ooooo Canada is a 30-minute edited version presenting highlights from a five-hour webcast on 13 February 2010. Ooooo Canada was the first in a series of five site-specific projects presented during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The broadcast was co-hosted by Skeena Reece and Paul Wong. It is a critique of corporate, mass, pop and nationalist culture in the 21st century. Reece and Wong provide illuminating, alternative, personal, political and comedic perspectives. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Oops! (2006)
83min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Cuong Ngo, (Vietnam)
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Open Gym (2013)
7min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Simu Liu (Canada)
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Summary:	When a meek man takes a free mixed martial arts class, he must dare to change his ways or else.
Source:	Reel Asian

Open Letter: Grasp the Bird's Tail (1992)
Short
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Director/Filmmaker:	Brenda Joy Lem (Canada)
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Awards:	Honourable Mention, Awards of Excellence in the writing category, Atlantic International Film Festival, 1993; Most Promising Filmmaker Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1993
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OR'D'UR (1983)
41min. Drama, Colour, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Bashar Shbib (Syria)
Production Company:	Oneira Pictures International
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The title is a play on the French word for garbage, 'ordure'. It is an experimental piece of work which brings to light inherent problems with documentary film, not to mention the language of a few prostitutes. A group of rowdy Montréal boys live under the wing of a tough matron-mama (Claire Nadon) who runs her house like a youth hostel. (www.oneira.com)
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Ornithology (2005)
6min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Luo Li (Canada)
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Summary:	Luo Li dispenses with the Eastern influence in his previous film Birds to set Charlie Parker and Bennie Harris's score aflutter in this boldly imaginative and artfully orchestrated short.
Source:	Reel Asian

Out for Bubble Tea (2005)
17min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Desiree Lim (Malaysia)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	May, Kim and Ling are three Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong who like to hang out at the neighbourhood Bubble Tea house. May is struggling with the issue of coming out to her family as a lesbian, Kim has a crush on the waitress at the Bubble Tea house, and Ling is trying to get out of a family matchmaking arrangement. Stories unfold through their tête-à-tête at the Bubble Tea House the new "coffeehouses" for socializing. (Desiree Lim)
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Overwriting & Overvoicing (2010)
21min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Nobuo Kubota (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	See http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=7460 (Vtape)
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Oxidize (2013)
5min. Uncategorized, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Sharlene Bamboat (Pakistan)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Oxidize is a three Channel Super 8mm film with live audio and performance that speaks to the ways that imperialism circulates within Canada. An extension of a three-act performance titled 'The Queen's Punishment', exhibited at Access Gallery in Vancouver (October 2012), Oxidize extends Bamboat's concept of Canada's imperial and settler history by (re) enacting labour, consumption and the reproduction of colonial acts. (Vtape)
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