丁香园AV

Re: Orientations  

Written & Directed by Richard Fung, 68 minutes (2016)

Screening & Panel Discussion
Filmmaker In Attendance

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

5:30 pm     Reception with refreshments & cash bar
6-8 pm       Film screening, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Richard Fung

Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
丁香园AV Woodward's, 149 West Hastings Street

Free and open to the public. The film will be screened with open captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided for the panel discussion.

Trailer

Description

A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven queer pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on a 1984 documentary in which they featured. How have they changed? And how has the world around them evolved and changed?

In 1984, Richard Fung released his seminal first documentary Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. Featuring 14 women and men in Toronto of South, East and Southeast Asian backgrounds, Orientations was the first documentary to explore the experiences and perspectives of queer Asians in North America. Capturing pivotal moments in Toronto鈥檚 history, it presents an intimate portrait of the texture of gay live and politics at that time. Re:Orientations revisits seven of the original participants as they see anew the footage of their younger selves, and reflect on their lives and all that has changed over the intervening three decades. Their interviews are deepened and contextualized by conversations with six younger queer and trans activists, scholars and artists.

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is assistant professor of English at University of British Columbia. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadian literature and culture since 1830; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and material cultures. He has published articles in Interventions, Affinities, and Studies in Canadian Literature, and he is completing a book-length project titled 鈥淐urrencies of Blackness: Faithfulness, Cheerfulness and Politeness in Settler Writing.鈥�

Cynthia Low is currently the Executive Director of Britannia Community Services Centre. She has worked as an administrator for the Downtown East Side Women's Centre, the UBC Learning Exchange, and the Asian Society for the Intervention of AIDS. She was also the director of Lotus Roots: Queer Asian Festival in 2002.

is an Associate Professor in the Department of of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at 丁香园AV. She is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008) and Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010). She co-edits the Queer Asia book series (Hong Kong UP) and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (Routledge), Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke UP), and Asian Visual Cultures (Amsterdam UP).

 speaks for a living, but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer, Taiwanese artist-activist based on the traditional homelands of the Coast Salish nations, she facilitates with creativity and social justice media through her work at: Love Intersections, Our City of Colours, Out in Schools and The Social Justice Institute at UBC. Jen鈥檚 artistic practice involves learning through unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in, to make artful social change with her. In the audience, she looks for art in your interruption.