SAFFM - RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE WEST, Montréal, QC, Canada
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RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY (77 minutes, 2016)
RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY: What emerges from a pile of deteriorating 16mm home movies spanning from 1936 to 1951, is a moving story of a Chinese American family set against the backdrop of race and class in Chicago, and one collector’s obsession with the 1933-4 World’s Fair. Rescued from an online auction, the filmmakers’ quest to make meaning of this Chinese American family’s early home movies connects him with Irena Lum – the surviving daughter of graphic artist and collector, Silas Henry Fung. Intertwining a first-person narrative as an outside witness with family accounts and other commentators, Kazimi weaves a rich tapestry of the life of an unusually wealthy family of colour from the Depression era. The retrieved footage offers an intimate and radically different visual perspective on the Chinese American community in Chicago – with a surprising feminist twist. Visually rich and textured, unafraid to show the decaying patina of a family archive, Random Acts of Legacy revels in the making of home movies and memory.
Filmmaker’s Bio: Ali Kazimi is an award-winning filmmaker, whose work engages race, social justice, migration, history and memory. Born and raised in India, Kazimi came to York University in 1983 as a student, and has gone on to become one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers, receiving a Gemini Award for Best Social and Political Documentary in 2005. Highlights of his international critical acclaim include Golden Gate Award, San Fran. International Film Fest; Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival; Best Director & Best Political Documentary, Hot Docs; CAAMFest Best Documentary; and audience awards for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Los Angeles Indian Film Festival.
Kazimi is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University, where he has been teaching since 2006.
RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY (77 minutes, 2016)
RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY: What emerges from a pile of deteriorating 16mm home movies spanning from 1936 to 1951, is a moving story of a Chinese American family set against the backdrop of race and class in Chicago, and one collector’s obsession with the 1933-4 World’s Fair. Rescued from an online auction, the filmmakers’ quest to make meaning of this Chinese American family’s early home movies connects him with Irena Lum – the surviving daughter of graphic artist and collector, Silas Henry Fung. Intertwining a first-person narrative as an outside witness with family accounts and other commentators, Kazimi weaves a rich tapestry of the life of an unusually wealthy family of colour from the Depression era. The retrieved footage offers an intimate and radically different visual perspective on the Chinese American community in Chicago – with a surprising feminist twist. Visually rich and textured, unafraid to show the decaying patina of a family archive, Random Acts of Legacy revels in the making of home movies and memory.
Filmmaker’s Bio: Ali Kazimi is an award-winning filmmaker, whose work engages race, social justice, migration, history and memory. Born and raised in India, Kazimi came to York University in 1983 as a student, and has gone on to become one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers, receiving a Gemini Award for Best Social and Political Documentary in 2005. Highlights of his international critical acclaim include Golden Gate Award, San Fran. International Film Fest; Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival; Best Director & Best Political Documentary, Hot Docs; CAAMFest Best Documentary; and audience awards for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Los Angeles Indian Film Festival.
Kazimi is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University, where he has been teaching since 2006.
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