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    5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown

    Shelly SILVER 2010 USA Animation color 10min English Digi Beta
    You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself “what used to be there?” You are only vaguely aware of the district’s shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th Century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops.

    10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration,
    exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown.

    Director

    Shelly SILVER

    Quoting from the established genres of experimental, documentary, and fiction film and television, Shelly SILVER’s work is funny, poetic and formally beautiful, seducing the viewer into pondering such difficult issues as the cracks in our most common assumptions, the impossibility of a shared language, and the ambivalent and yet overwhelming need to belong―to a family, a nation, a gender, an ideology.

    Shelly SILVER

    1991 The Houses that Are Left

    1996 37 Stories about Leaving Home

    2010 中國城踹共！5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown

        Director／Shelly SILVER

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