films

women, immigration, domesticity, fluidity, diasporic beings

vegas, reflected

In Las Vegas, three Chinese immigrant women look back on their lives as casino dealers in a city that never looks at them.

late

An overdue birth and a visitation from the dead draw an estranged mother and daughter toward the secrets that once tore them apart.

water mama

After a difficult divorce, a woman begins to learn more about herself from jellyfish than from any book or relationship.

homeward

In suburban Vegas, an artist, a casino dealer, and a tai chi master—three generations of one immigrant family—find community in unexpected ways.

bath

Steam, skin, and sea water blur as a bath becomes a passage to rest, reverie, and emotion.

mark on the wall

An anxious student runs out of time on an English exam and tumbles into a literal black hole on the classroom wall. Or is it an existential void?

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