Kangmin Kim invites us into the vicarious dreams of his mother in “KKUM.” In this stop-motion animated experimental memoir, Kim illustrates his mother’s prophetic visions in monochromatic styrofoam, cotton, and light. These elements are re-contextualized ...
Can we be friends with our circumstances? This is the question that Jason Park asks us in their short film, “BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop.” Byung Jun Lee, or BJ for short (played by Johnnyboy Tellem), ...
A lone receptionist stands behind his desk. At all times, he maintains a demeanor that is equal parts serious, bored, and annoyed. He keeps his desk neat, and though the hotel is clean and modern, ...
Watching Carol Nguyen’s short film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” as a child of Asian immigrants is an uncomfortable, queasy experience–if only because it touches upon a familiar sense of stoicism that haunts many ...
Directed by Kathy Meng, “My Boyfriend’s Daughter” is a short film that follows Essie (Claire Hsu), a young Asian American woman engaged in a relationship with the significantly older Karl (Guy Ventoliere). However, despite dating ...
“This is not a love story. I hate love stories. If you’re single in this city, it’s the worst place to be.” From the opening narration, Mayumi Yoshida’s “Tokyo Lovers” makes it clear that loneliness ...
It’s often such a shame that shorts programs generally get shafted by the general nature of film festivals. That’s just usually how it goes. Next to feature-length films directed by more established filmmakers and the ...
Throughout her prolific career as a music video director, Los Angeles based filmmaker Maegan Houang has explored a wide range of dark fantasy topics with her uncompromising direction. But while videos like "Chatroom", "Happy", and ...
Compared to its distant relative, the butterfly, the moth is a little bit underwhelming. Duller, darker, and always second best–that’s the moth’s unfortunate reality. Yet, they’re a creature that is constantly drawn to the spotlight. ...
Words simply can’t express what Chinese New Year means to a Chinese person. It’s a time of celebration, reflection, and lots and lots of all things red. But for those of us who haven’t seen ...