My short film “25th & Mission” (7 min, 2007) is playing at the Boston Asian American Film Festival on Friday, October 24 at 8:00pm at Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, located in Josiah Quincy School, 90 Tyler Street in Boston’s Chinatown. It will be part of a program called “Good Things Come in Small Packages" (Click here for tickets). Here’s a description of the piece:
What begins as abstract fields of color gradually emerges to be a portrait of four tiny shops in a block of San Francisco’s Mission district. They are as diverse as the community around them: a Chinese-run laundry, a Salvadoran hair salon, a hipster tattoo parlor, an art gallery. As the camera hovers inches from its subjects, we realize that the seemingly disparate shops are linked not only by their location but also by their inhabitants’ loving attention to the beautification of the varied surfaces they work with.