Moving the Image is the most comprehensive effort to define independent Asian Pacific media arts and to describe its course from 1970-1990. The words, essays, and statements by the fifty media artists and cultural workers in this book challenge, celebrate, and contradict each other. Over ninety film stills and archival photos from the early 1900s to the 1990s illustrate this volume, designed to be used as a creative sourcebook and as an introductory text.
Preface
Linda Mabalot
Introduction: To Open the Future
Russell Leong
I. Moving the Image
A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers 1970-1990
Stephen Gong
Moving the Image: Asian American Independent Filmmaking 1970-1990
Renee Tajima
Back to Real Asian American Filmmaking
John Esaki
Conversations: An Experiment in Community-based Filmmaking
Karen Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura
II. Through Ourselves
To Commemorate My Grandfather
Van Troi Pang
Strategies of an Asian American Filmmaker
Loni Dang
Q & A
Christine Choy
Center the Margins
Richard Fung
The (Sorry) State of (Independent) Things
Gregg Araki
"Of Life and Perversity": Wayne Wang Speaks
Janice Sakamoto
III. Routes of Passage
Until the Day Breaks: Nationalistic Film and Video Movement in Korea
Hye Jung Park
Thailand - Not Taiwan: A Play in One Act
Nicky Tamrong
Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Radio And The Third World: The Case of the Phillippines
Maricel Pagulayan
Paris in Tokyo in L.A.
Bruce Yonemoto
The Making of Halmani
Kyung-Ja Lee
Investing in Positive Images
Peter Wang
Asian and Asian American Cinema: Separated by a Common Language?
Luis Francia
IV. Pacific "Truths"
The Reel Hawaii
Diane Mei Lin Mark
V. Beyond the Big Screen
For the Asian American, Afro-American, Native American and Mexican American Filmamakers and Their Friends
Carlton Moss
Mandarins in Hollywood
Charles L. Leong
Modernizing White Patriarchy: Re-Viewing D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms
John Kuo Tchen
James Wong Howe: The Chinaman Eye
Frank Chin
Final Mix: Unscheduled
Yoshio Kishi
Pioneers and Groundbreakers
Yoshio Kishi
VI. Living Below the Line
Don't Let Them Know
Geraldine Kudaka
Making the Cut
Irvin Paik
"Suckcess" Above the Line: From Here to Obscurity
Curtis Choy
Characterizing Costume
Terence Tam Soon
It's America
George Leong
Dear Spence
Michael Chin
VII. Directing Memory
Rojak
Cheng-Sim Lim
"What Is It About This World?"
Supachai Surongsain
Rituals Revisited
Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
Electrons and Reflective Shadows
Janice Tanaka
An(Other) Reflection on Race?
Roddy Bogawa
Labtalk
Mar Elepano
VIII. Into Frame
Bitter Soup
Arne Wong
Moving the Image, Removing the Artist, Killing the Messenger
Daryl Chin
Ten Things I Hate About America: Notes from a Frustrated Young Filmmaker
Jon Moritsugu
Rshomon Blues
Anthony B. Chan
Video Art: How Many Voices?
Art Nomura
Spiritual Quest
Fu-Ding Cheng
On Experimental Video
Valerie Soe
Earradiation: "Gold Mountain" Radio
Theo-dric Feng
IX. Who's Listening
Surviving in This Place Called the United States
Esther G. Belin
Public Media: Serving the Public Interest?
James Yee
"The Last Game Show": A New Production Strategy
Norman Jayo
A Talk Story Poem for Open Dialogue III
Peter Nien-chu Kiang
