Short film
Dirty Laundry
1996 · 30 min
A quiet, essayistic collage that asks you to sit with gaps and silences, blending reenactment and interview into a searching, unresolved meditation.
- Directed by
- Richard Fung
- Starring
- Jo Alcampo, Andy Qua, T.H. Xia
- Overview
- Dirty Laundry speculates upon the buried narratives of gender and sexuality in Chinese-Canadian history of the 19th century, when Chinese communities were almost exclusively male. A story about a chance late-night encounter between a steward and a passenger on a train interweaves with documentary interviews with historians and writers and historical documents brought to life. The tape poses nagging questions about the personal and political stakes in the writing of history and in our interpretations of the past.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Identity, isolation, sexuality, gender
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard Fung
- Starring
- Jo Alcampo, Andy Qua, T.H. Xia