Written By: Kano Umezaki In the popular cinematic imagination, Asians and Pacific Islanders linger as exotic backgrounds, simultaneously commodified and expropriated in the name of “representation.” To challenge against these colonial myths that ce ...
Learning is a labor of love in Shuling Yong’s ‘Unteachable’
Written By: Kano Umezaki Singapore’s centralized education system is known for yielding high test results, but it often fails to give support to its most vulnerable, low-income students. Shuling Yong’s “Unteachable” documents Meixi Ng’s four-year journe ...
Mechanized racism: Shalini Kantaya’s ‘Coded Bias’
Written By: Kano Umezaki When MIT Media Lab researcher, Joy Buolamwini, finds that face-recognition softwares fail to identify darker-skinned people, she discovers that anti-Blackness is pervasive within the fabric of the digital world. Sha ...
Documentary as pilgrimage: Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu’s ‘Far East Deep South’
Written By Kano Umezaki In the triptych documentary, “Far East Deep South,” director Larissa Lam and co-producer Baldwin Chiu explore the traumatic, intergenerational consequences of coerced Chinese labor migration in the American South. The documentar ...