Description

Filmmaker Richard Fung explores the evolution of LGBTQIA voices in his documentary, RE:ORIENTATIONS. The film is a follow-up to his 1984 documentary, ORIENTATIONS: LESBIAN AND GAY ASIANS, which was the first to feature perspectives of LGBTQIA Asians in North America and told the stories of 14 men and women living in Toronto. RE:ORIENTATIONS connects past and present by blending interviews from ORIENTATIONS with new footage with many of the first film’s subjects.

The extraordinary treasure in RE:ORIENTATIONS is the subjects’ reflections on their original footage and how they have grown through non-traditional trajectories and networks. Fung delicately explores their experiences with identity, feminism, racism, marriage equality, spirituality and the AIDS crisis while examining generational shifts and trends in community, politics, acceptance and visibility.

Fung injects new blood into the contemporary side of the film as well, bringing in perspectives of six younger LGBTQIA artists, activists and scholars. The result is a deliciously diverse potpourri of voices that merges fresh and enlightened perspectives on queer and trans Asians.

— Brian Ray

Expected Guest in Attendance: Richard Fung (Director/Writer)

Co-presented by: APIQWTC Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community, Consulate General of Canada, Frameline, Queer Cultural Center, 

Credits

Writer: Richard Fung
Cinematographer: John Greyson
Editor: Dennis Day
Music: Glenn Schellenberg, Phil Strong, Thomas Hoy
Subjects: Ponni Arasu, Robert Diaz, Ju Hui Judy Han, Nathan Hoo, El-Farouk Khaki, Gein Wong

Preceded By

1. 

   Semiotics of SAB

   Tina Takemoto / Shorts / USA / 2016 / 6 mins

   An oblique portrait of gay Japanese American actor Sab Shimono, whose work on stage and screen spans more than five decades. The grammatology of his career attests to conflicting lexicons of race, representation, and selfhood.

   Precedes: Re:Orientations

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