Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Kimchi Fried Dumplings

    An Asian Canadian man comes home with a new boyfriend for Christmas to find his younger brother, who is also gay, resentful for being left to care for their aging parents

  • Gaysian

    When a gay Asian man notices that many gay men are taking a ‘no-Asian’ stance, he tries a group he previously avoided – rice queens, men ONLY attracted to Asians. Gaysian is a comedy that explores how we all bring prejudices into the bedroom, and sometimes learn we were wrong…or not.

  • My Father, Francis

    My Father, Francis: a father and daughter collaborate. A comment on kinship, diasporic labour, devotion and the factory as a site of creativity.

  • DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR!

    Using the voice as a metaphor for political voice, Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced with prejudice and marginalization back in Singapore, and later in North America. The schooling and suppression of his voice becomes interwoven with his experiences of colonialism and exile. Playing with the biography documentary form, DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR! brackets issues of voice / gender / representation as Stephen traces his westernization, the discovery and silencing of his voice, and people’s reactions in Singapore and North America. Reflecting on the “unsettling” quality of his voice, Stephen decided to exploit the…

  • Finding a Place to Sleep

    Based on stories my grandmother told me, I re-imagine while working as a cleaner the experiences of my ancestors during the Holodomor (forced famine) in Ukraine during the Stalinist-Soviet era. The “film” image is re-invented through digital video to enact a sense of ambiguity between authenticity and fiction, as can also be present in the act of oral storytelling. This is one chapter in “Stories for a Future Generation,” a series of shorts which together tell the stories of my family’s and my own migrations, and the inter-generational impacts of those upon our lives and on those of our family’s…

  • The Incorporated

    THE INCORPORATED is shopping as ritual-a twenty-first century, yet primeval dance. The Incorporated was shot entirely inside mega-malls with a pocket camera, dismissed or unnoticed by security guards and public alike. It is comprised of mass behaviours and intimate unguarded moments between individuals. The ritual is enacted in front of logo texts like Armani, Lacoste, Holt Renfrew, Victoria’s Secret, Banana Republic, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla. No product is ever shown, but we know what those words mean.Outside, the cosmopolis may be divided by class, race and ethnicity. But inside the mega-mall, the diversity of its peoples-commingled-is strangely celebratory.

  • Entelechy

    A complex work that portrays three evolutionary states in human development – Physicality (harmony with the environment); Intellectuality (disharmony with the environment); Spirituality (unity with the environment).

  • Entropiscape

    A synthesis of visual, aural and kinetic elements that evolve from one state into another. Although no statement is made within its content, the film does follow a curve with a beginning, middle and end.

  • Every Monday

    During a routine visit to his estranged Grandfather’s house, a young Boy accidentally destroys a gift with which his single-mother intended to win Grandfather back into her life. The Boy’s furtive effort to restore the object before his blunder is noticed, however, inadvertently inflicts a shift to an already complicated family dynamic.

  • Goin’ Ape

    A man driven to the edge seeks refuge in a go-go bar while sleaze bags plot against him. He saves a girl he once knew from unspeakable perils.