My Sight is Lined with Visions~Package Collection
Our full collection of films from "My Sight is Lined with Visions".
This package includes a 14-day rental period.
THE PROGRAM
The Blindness Series (dir. TRAN T. Kim-Trang; 1992-2006; 140 min.)
These eight short videos explore the many resonances of blindness, from eye-lid surgery, video surveillance, to word-blindness, and brilliantly incorporate the artist’s interventions over more than a decade of sustained practice.
Bontoc Eulogy (dir. Marlon Fuentes; 1995; 57 min.)
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s archive of the “living exhibits” of Phillipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the only film from Marlon Fuentes nests a narrative of discovering family lore, ethnography of the Igorot, and stylized enactments in a far-reaching inquiry into historical erasure.
Fresh Kill (dir. Shu Lea Cheang; 1994; 80 min.)
The first feature film from artist and digital pioneer Shu Lea Cheang brings her radical experimental vision to a viciously political and campy narrative of two young lesbian parents who fight against environmental racism in the form of radioactive fish lips.
Kelly Loves Tony (dir. Spencer Nakasako; 1998; 58 min.)
In this captivating take on documentary co-creation, Kelly Saeturn and her boyfriend, Tony Saelio, both refugees from Laos who grew up in the US, record a year and a half of their own lives as Kelly balances her hopes to attend college, a pregnancy, and her relationship with Tony, an ex-con trying to reform.
Some Divine Wind (dir. Roddy Bogawa; 1991; 72 min.)
A splintering of narrative structure mixed with found and created material depict the life of Ben, a young multiracial man is safely ensconced in his life with a white girlfriend, as he discovers that his father was part of a bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother’s village and killed her entire family during World War II.
Strawberry Fields (dir. Rea Tajiri; 1997; 90 min.)
Set in the 1970s, a teenage Japanese American pyro runs away from her repressed and overbearing mother on a cross-country road trip that ends at the site of a World War II internment camp, rendering corporeal seen and unseen ghosts.
Terminal USA (dir. Jon Moritsugu; 1993; 54 min.)
One family’s shenanigans, full of playfully twisted stereotypes, drug addictions, and illicit affairs, grow ever more violent in this comedic satire, which was controversially created for public broadcast.
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Fresh Kill dir. Shu Lea Cheang, 1994
1h 18m
The first feature film from artist and digital pioneer Shu Lea Cheang brings her radical experimental vision to a viciously political and campy narrative of two young lesbian parents who fight against environmental racism in the form of radioactive fish lips.
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Kelly Loves Tony dir. Spencer Nakasako, 1998
57m
In this captivating take on documentary co-creation, Kelly Saeturn and her boyfriend, Tony Saelio, both refugees from Laos who grew up in the US, record a year and a half of their own lives as Kelly balances her hopes to attend college, a pregnancy, and her relationship with Tony, an ex-con tryin...
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Strawberry Fields dir. Rea Tajiri, 1997
1h 25m
Set in the 1970s, a teenage Japanese American pyro runs away from her repressed and overbearing mother on a cross-country road trip that ends at the site of a World War II internment camp, rendering corporeal seen and unseen ghosts.
*Note: Artifacts from the video transfer are present throughout...
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Mommy Mommy, Where's My Brain dir. by Jon Moritsugu, 1986
9m 20s
Part AC/DC, part Jacques Derrida. An experimental film made as a response to the critical theory aspects of the filmmakers degree and academic film criticism.
*Note: We recommend watching this on a small screen due to the resolution.
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Terminal USA dir. Jon Moritsugu , 1993
59m
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Exotic Nippon, 1963
8m 16s
EXOTIC NIPPON. A travelogue. A postcard lost in the mail for decades. A found film
bought for five dollars at a swap meet of the movie drive in parking lot on a
sweltering Sunday afternoon. An 8mm document of the schizophrenic post-modern
condition – post industrial, post war, post identity. Spil... -
Four or Five Accidents, One June... dir. Roddy Bogawa, 1989
25m
A literal/metaphorical 'map' of anecdotes, jump cut interviews, incorrect 'talking-head' shots, hit-and-miss quotations, as the film follows the route of a delivery driver turned narrator, encountering various characters along the way such as the glaucoma-stricken elderly owner of a bed and break...
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Some Divine Wind dir. Roddy Bogawa, 1991
1h 9m
A splintering of narrative structure mixed with found and created material depict the life of Ben, a young multiracial man is safely ensconced in his life with a white girlfriend, as he discovers that his father was part of a bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother’s village and killed...
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Bontoc Eulogy dir. Marlon Fuentes, 1995
57m
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s archive of the “living exhibits” of Phillipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the only film from Marlon Fuentes nests a narrative of discovering family lore, ethnography of the Bontoc people, and stylized enactments in a far-reaching inquiry into historical eras...
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The Blindness Series - aletheia
16m
Alethia is the introductory tape to the blindness series, investigating blindness and its metaphors. This tape indexes six categories under examination:
1) Cosmetic surgery; 2) Sexuality - fear & fantasy of blindness, the eye and women and AIDS; 3) Technology; 4) Language; 5) Hysterical blindness... -
The Blindness Series - alexia
10m
alexia is an experimental video about word-blindness and metaphor. Word-blindness is a condition that usually afflicts people who have suffered a stroke, causing them to lose the visual recognition of individual letters but perceive the entire word, or vice versa. Metaphor is here discussed in it...
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The Blindness Series - amaurosis
29m
amaurosis is an experimental documentary about Dat Nguyen, a blind guitarist living in Little Saigon, Orange County, California. Dat Nguyen was a "triple outcast": blind, Amerasian, and an impoverished orphan. His American father left Viet Nam in 1973, and his mother died in 1975. Living on the s...
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The Blindness Series - ekleipsis
24m
In 1992, Tran came across a New York Times article about a group of hysterically blind Cambodian women in Long Beach, California, known as the largest group of such people in the world. Hysterical blindness is sight loss brought about by traumatic stress, and has little or no physical causes. ekl...
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The Blindness Series - Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life
13m
The Palpable Invisibility of Life visualizes the unseen threads between mother and child, revealing how the ties that bind four generations of women become manifest when a great-grandmother’s imploring words to persevere, passed from granddaughter to great granddaughter, compel a woman to continu...
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The Blindness Series - kore
16m
By focusing on the blindfold, kore explores the eye as purveyor of desire, sexual fear, and the fantasy of blindness. An alternative sexuality is founded in touch-based (feminine?) pleasure as opposed to a vision-based (masculine?) pleasure. An examination of institutional blindspots towards wome...
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The Blindness Series - ocularis
22m
This video highlights several narratives concerning video surveillance—not to reiterate the conventional privacy argument but rather to engage the desire to watch surveillance materials and society’s insatiable voyeurism. A variety of subjects recount their interactions with surveillance—getting ...
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The Blindness Series - operculum
14m
The artist visits with seven cosmetic surgeons specializing in blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid creasing surgery) in the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills area for initial consultation sessions. The doctors demonstrate different reshaping options and comment upon the prevalence and success rates for di...