SHORTS: TALKING BACK

SHORTS: TALKING BACK

UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 9, 2015 6:40 pm

Description

Filmmakers turn their cameras on their parents and grandparents, inciting conversation, chasing tough memories, and refusing the paralysis of silence.

Co-presented by: CSU San Marcos

In This Program

RAYMOND

Nina Yuen / USA / 2014 / 11 mins
A testament to the possibilities of the short form, this experimental piece portrays the fond influence between an unusual genius-like father and his artist daughter.
GIAP’S LAST DAY AT THE IRONING BOARD FACTORY

Tony Nguyen / USA / 2015 / 26 mins
An estranged son documents his mother’s retirement and gives a rare glimpse of the Vietnamese experience in a tight-knit factory community in small-town USA.
TAK CHUNG WU

Tyler Russo / USA / 2015 / 5 mins
This short, heated doc brings us the maddening but raw reminiscences of a 96-year-old father, as interviewed by his daughter.
VISITING MUM

Cassandra Nguyen / Australia / 2015 / 21 mins
Two brothers visit their mother’s grave in this delightful and sweet-natured film about death, family, and brotherhood.
CHOPPING ONIONS

Adinah Dancyger / USA / 2015 / 16 mins
A young girl in New York City navigates feeling for her Korean grandmother and her summer camp classmates.
MY SISTER SWALLOWED THE ZOO

Maya Yu Zhang / China, USA / 2015 / 11 mins
Voyeuristic and personal record of the filmmaker's increasingly hostile phone conversation with her mother, set to photographs of her growing up and the love that should have been there.
A FAMILY DAY

Jeff Man / USA / 2015 / 10 mins
A filmmaker’s day hanging out with a grandmother with dementia, culminating in a final scene that’s real in all of the right ways.