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That’s Harry doing a hand stand in the filmmakers lounge at the SFIAAFF. Here’s what was said about the film. Special Jury Prize does mean 2nd place, but it’s still a great honor. Although only one film can be designated the “best documentary,” another work presented in competition—through sheer audacity, energy and spectacular visual presence—demands to be recognized with the 2009 SFIAAFF Special Jury Award: DIRTY HANDS. This is a film like no other about an individual that has no comparison. And it is what every artist working with film hopes to experience and achieve: a perfect, almost sublime, match between camera and subject. Stimulating, profane and sometimes uncomfortable, both move in step with each other, screaming and dragging the audience into an insanely energized and zig-zag narrative that is impossible to separate from the artist, or his wildly kinetic art. Entirely refreshing, beneath the intoxicating pace and intensity is a noteworthy choice to frame the individual first through his work, rather than through his Asian American identity. Dirty Hands is the result of seven years devoted by a filmmaker to understanding and participating in the life of his subject, his friend. With this in mind, it’s easy to say the film required no discipline to create and discover, and that may be true. But because it does work against every grain of objectivity and distance that is often the hallmark of documentary film, it is true to the reckless and rebellious ‘life and times of David Choe.’ In its intimate understanding, its knowledge of knowing when to pull away and when to draw focus, it paints a true and truthful image of its subject, unfinished, undone and wild. And that truth is what every good work of art strives to achieve, and the backbone of any good documentary—Asian American or otherwise.
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Catch the March 20th 7:30 screening, there's going to be a Q and A with Ayako Fujitani in person. She's pretty laid back, but can give inciteful answers at the same time. Watch her metamorphosis! That's Ayako sitting next to a window in L.A. and you can see her trademark hair curl. She also sports a retro Megan Whitmarsh wallet. The film is one to check out. It's by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and...
Catch the March 20th 7:30 screening, there’s going to be a Q and A with Ayako Fujitani in person. She’s pretty laid back, but can give inciteful answers at the same time. Watch her metamorphosis! That’s Ayako sitting next to a window in L.A. and you can see her trademark hair curl. She also sports a retro Megan Whitmarsh wallet. The film is one to check out. It’s by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho. Two Frenchmen and a Korean. Here’s the site link.Tokyo! Here’s a trailer:TOKYO! The Official Movie Trailer – Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho from micfsk on Vimeo.
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This is Franklin Oda. He's running the Smithsonian APA Program. The Smithsonian is so huge that they need an organization to make sure everyone is playing fair. They also do events, and make sure Asian Americans get represented. I think it's worth fighting for that. If they didn't, then who would. It was great to drop in and say hello.
This is Washington DC's finest example of graffiti. I dig this....
This is Franklin Oda. He’s running the Smithsonian APA Program. The Smithsonian is so huge that they need an organization to make sure everyone is playing fair. They also do events, and make sure Asian Americans get represented. I think it’s worth fighting for that. If they didn’t, then who would. It was great to drop in and say hello. This is Washington DC’s finest example of graffiti. I dig this. I saw more than one. It’s thick road paint, and you’ll see if you’re on foot. That’s the Air and Space Museum. I like how it looks like cracks in the buildings. Maybe it’s like giant square hangars for the planes. It looks powerful outside and inside.
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