@husbrian

I was born, but... Artistic Director @PacArtsMovement. Faculty @SDSU_TTF. Co-troublemaker @wakeupsatschool.

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Joined January 2012
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And then there’s Rea Tajiri’s masterful Wisdom Gone Wild, a geographic, historical, and spiritual journey. Music, play, photographs, and memories half-remembered connect Rea and her mother who has dementia, in a non-linear duet from LA to Philly to the incarceration camps.
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Asian Americans built the railroads that spanned a continent. Through the eyes of generations that followed, we remap America. Stories that reanimate places and spaces. Characters that challenge manifest destiny and imperialist fantasies usually associated with cinematic travel.
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AAPI Heritage Month is coming to a close, but the films in First-Person Asian American will still be on the @criterionchannl. Hit the road with them!
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There are returns home and visits with family. Kimi Takesue's heartfelt 95 and 6 to Go brings her to grandparents in Hawaii. Janice Tanaka finds her estranged father on LA’s Skid Row in Who’s Going to Pay for these Donuts Anyway?
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Or films like First Person Plural and Twinsters told by Korean adoptees returning to the country of their birth. I’ve always found adoptee reunions akin to speculative fiction. What if I had another family in another world? What if I had a long-lost twin??
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Doan Hoang’s Oh, Saigon is the tragic version of that what-if tale. What if my parents didn’t flee Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon? For Doan, traveling to Vietnam is visiting a version of herself and family that, for political and perhaps personal reasons, was forbidden at home.
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If you haven't had a chance to check out the "First Person Asian American" series on the Criterion Channel, I hope you will! The films are still streaming. I had the pleasure of curating the 11 features. criterionchannel.com/first-p…
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Consider two very different cross-country travelogues. Renee Tajima-Peña's My America is a lively, eclectic portrait of Asian Americans on white roads and towns, in search of belonging. Miko Revereza's No Data Plan is a train ride through the eyes of an undocumented immigrant.
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The first-person documentary might seem like an insular genre, especially in an age of vlogs and TikTok, where the camera is a mirror and self-broadcasting device. But many Asian American documentaries, even those told in the first person, aim their cameras outward.
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FIRST-PERSON ASIAN AMERICAN: 11 DOCUMENTARIES criterionchannel.com/first-p… As independent Asian American filmmakers took the matter of self-representation into their own hands, many turned inward: to their own families, personal histories, and private musings.
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This series was a blast to research. So much tenderness, bitterness, humor, and horror, told through bold, personal visions of America.
Criterion Channel
@criterionchannl17 Apr 2024
FIRST-PERSON ASIAN AMERICAN: 12 DOCUMENTARIES 📽️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in May! criterion.com/current/posts/…
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Peppermint Candy is one of the films that made me fall in love with South Korean Cinema. Tonight you can see it at MOPA thx to @husbrian & @PacArtsMovement . It's brilliant and heartbreaking sdmart.org/event/on-film-at-…

On Film: Korea in Color - San Diego Museum of Art

Thursday, February 8 5:00–9:00 p.m. MOPA@SDMA Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater   Celebrate Lunar New Year with On Film: Korea in Color. Enjoy the Korean film Peppermint Candy selected in...

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An unexpected number 1! Happy to see attention going its way and grateful to have been able to contribute to the Blu-ray edition.
TheWrap
@TheWrap31 Dec 2023
From James Cameron to Jackie Chan: The 10 Best Home Video Releases of 2023 thewrap.com/best-4k-blu-rays…

From James Cameron to Jackie Chan: The 10 Best Home Video Releases of 2023

2023 was a terrific year for 4K and Blu-ray, despite what some might say, and we list the greatest physical media releases of the year.

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Minari, Past Lives, The Farewell, Everything Everywhere all At Once. Is it a coincidence that this wave of award-winning Asian American cinema is all distributed by A24? That question led to other ones, culminating in this article, now in @FilmQuarterly online.ucpress.edu/fq/articl…

A24 and the Asian American Prestige Film

Some of the most visible and acclaimed recent Asian American films (Minari, The Farewell, After Yang, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Past Lives) have been financed or distributed by the Hollywood...

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Trial of Uyghur film-maker to begin in China this week theguardian.com/global-devel…

Trial of Uyghur film-maker to begin in China this week

Ikram Nurmehmet, a director known for featuring Uyghur protagonists, was arrested in May and is being held on unknown charges

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We're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Screenwriting @SDSU. Lots of exciting change happening in the TV, Film, and New Media program, and we're looking for a colleague to help shape it for the coming decades. apply.interfolio.com/131895
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For the first of several domestic melodramas, Wayne Wang drew on the influence of Ozu and the talent within his own San Francisco community to explore the relationship between a mother and her daughter. Read @husbrian on DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART ❤️criterion.com/current/posts/…

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart: Family Style

For the first of several domestic melodramas in his filmography, Wayne Wang drew on the influence of Yasujiro Ozu and the talent within his own San Francisco community to explore the relationship...

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Out today! Tickled that Wayne Wang director-approved my essay for the edition. I touch on Ozu, documentary, the SFSU strikes for ethnic studies, and the Taiwan New Cinema, while claiming Wang as the most important San Francisco narrative filmmaker. Above all, watch this film!
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@Criterion14 Aug 2023
Wayne Wang’s DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART (1985)—a family portrait that gracefully combines the director’s signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail—enters the collection on Blu-ray and DVD this week! criterion.com/films/31921-di…
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Joshua Minsoo Kim@misterminsoo20 Jul 2023
I wrote 21 blurbs for @RollingStone's "Top 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music" list. We go back 100 years!! I wrote about Pippi Band, Infinite, Nami, Sanullim, Miss A, Kim Jung Mi, SES, Hyuna, Twice, and the only right choice for #1!! rollingstone.com/music/music…

The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music

These are the 100 best Korean pop songs of all time. Discover the best Korean pop music from BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, and more.

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I guess imma be that guy, but y'all realize that there exists something called independent film right? Asian Americans have been hot messing onscreen for decades. Jon Moritsugu barfed on model minorities. Jiyoung Lee's features are literally called Moral Sleaze and Female Pervert
The New York Times
@nytimes6 Jul 2023
Films and TV shows like “Joy Ride,” “Beef” and “Shortcomings” are exploring all dimensions of the Asian American experience with characters who are both deeply flawed and fully fleshed out. The people making and watching the work agree: It’s about time. nyti.ms/3JHuvrm

For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating (Published 2023)

Forget the pious immigrant family drama. Films and shows like “Joy Ride,” “Beef” and “Shortcomings” are finally exploring all dimensions of the experience.

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There were films between Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians. They were not a footnote but a groundswell. If you're just writing about mainstream validation, just admit that. Asian American film festivalers and the generation that actively sought out alternatives know better.
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