Through the Queer Diasporic Gaze
Through the Queer Diasporic Gaze
A Panel and Q&A Screening of Queer Asian Films
by Andrew Ahn, Fatimah Asghar, Shuli Huang, and Karishma Dev Dube, moderated by Jess X. Snow
February 14th, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Room 1027, Tisch School of the Arts
Hosted by NYU Graduate Film Department, Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP), Tisch Institute for Creative Research, Rita Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, and the Asian Film & Media Initiative at the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies
In the United States, the camera is frequently used to police communities and create propaganda for corporations and the state. This can entrain Asian Americans toward assimilation and reproducing US nationalism and cisheteronormativity. How may queer Asian diasporic communities use film to counter-surveil and betray the male and western gaze?
Spanning documentary, memoir, coming of age family drama, fantasy, and magical realism, these authentic and brave short films from queer emerging and established directors of the Asian diaspora (Pakistan, China, Korea and India) show how to hold each other and ourselves in ways that nations and institutions cannot. Told with a tender gaze and breathtaking visuals, these films explore healing in the aftermath of immigrant and refugee experiences, domestic and sexual violence, and the tension of homophobia from the ones we love most. They lovingly and vibrantly unveil landscapes and emotionscapes rarely seen in mainstream Asian and Asian American film and unearth possibilities and practices of care, survival, chosen family and alternative futures.
Following the screenings will be a discussion moderated by Jess X. Snow with the filmmakers, Fatimah Asghar, Shuli Huang, Karishma Dev Dube, and Andrew Ahn.
Open to all NYU Students.
Live stream on Zoom available for non NYU Guests
Accessibility Info:
The venue is up an elevator, on the 10th floor of Tisch School of the Arts.
If requested, close captioning of film is provided.
The venue has gender-neutral bathrooms.
Guests with additional access needs can contact Tisch IBDEA Coordinator, Casiano Hamer crh401@nyu.edu