Forty minutes between life and death Written By: Demi Guo Content Warning: This article contains deep analyses and discussion of the nature and morality of suicide, which is the core theme of the film. The film starts with gunshots i ...
Portrait of a revolutionary heart: NoCut Film Collective’s ‘A Rifle and a Bag’
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers. At night, around the time the moon’s gaze is at its highest, three people sit around a fire. “Today was supposed to be my funeral,” one man says. Laughter follows, alo ...
‘Dinner Party’ creates space for us to imagine a better future
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Content warning: sexual assault. For many of us, the world we’re living in now is much different from the world we grew up in. As our knowledge of human experiences broa ...
Alex Liu searches for sex education and finds an opportunity for human connection in ‘A Sexplanation’
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Growing up as a gay kid in the Bay Area, Alex Liu was fighting to understand his sexual identity. “Until I was 18 I was deathly afraid, so terrified of this part of m ...
Conversations with friends: ‘See You Then’ finds power in subtlety
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Throughout the past few months, we've been slowly trickling out of isolation and into “hot vax summer,” and that also meant having awkward conversations with friends we ...
‘Mickey on the Road’ celebrates female heroes
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Since her childhood growing up in Taiwan under martial law, director Mian-Mian Lu has been pushing conventional boundaries. In high school, Lu started a drama club and d ...
Diasporized and undocumented: On the criminalizing immigration system in Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers. In addition to cultural estrangement, the Korean migrant experience can also be characterized by its forgettings. With a severed homeland leading to forced transnation ...
What’s in a name? ‘Wuhan Wuhan’
Yung Chang humanizes a city in a pandemic Written By: Demi Guo This article may contain spoilers. There is no shortage of use of the word “Wuhan” now. Most people in the world have learned about it through headlines that signal ...
‘Bookmark 14’ takes an honest look at what it means to be a teenager
Written By: Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. Adults love to wax poetic about their nostalgia associated with being a kid and kids love to talk about how they just want to grow up. But nobody thinks back fondly abou ...