Month: April 2020

A THOUSAND CUTS, Asian Pacific American Cinema, Asian Pacific Filmmakers Experience, Bao Nguyen, BE WATER, Ramona S. Diaz, Sundance Film Festival, Visual CommunicationsLeave a comment

(Late) Dispatches from Park City, Part Two: Parsing Democracy, A THOUSAND CUTS at a Time

Abraham Ferrer

In the second of two filmmaker interviews made in Park City, UT, filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz chats about the making of her latest, A THOUSAND CUTS… Continue reading (Late) Dispatches from Park City, Part Two: Parsing Democracy, A THOUSAND CUTS at a Time

Asian Pacific American Cinema, Mainstream Entertainment, Media Criticism, Sundance Film Festival, Visual CommunicationsLeave a comment

So This Is What It’s Come To: “Settling” for TIGERTAIL and the Death of the Communal Theatrical Experience

Abraham Ferrer

The long-awaited arrival of Alan Yang’s TIGERTAIL on Netflix underscores a new practice of viewing APA cinema, for better and, disquietingly, for worse… Continue reading So This Is What It’s Come To: “Settling” for TIGERTAIL and the Death of the Communal Theatrical Experience