Re:Orientations
- Director: Richard Fung
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Toronto video artist, writer, and associate professor Richard Fung made his first video in 1984 called Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians, featuring 14 people of South, Southeast and East Asian backgrounds. It was the first documentary on queer Asians and racialized queers in Canada.
Re:Orientations reconnects with seven of the original participants three decades later, as they become reacquainted with the footage of their younger selves. The documentary retraces their lives, taking stock of how the lived experience of sexuality, race, gender, class, and nation has both shifted and remained constant over the years. The film also features dialogues with younger queer and trans artists, academics and activists that deepen and contextualize these conversations and the larger project of exploring this history.
Trailer...
RE:ORIENTATIONS (TRAILER) from Richard Fung on Vimeo.