YELLOW (2021)

Experimental Short Film, for group installation
Directed by Amanda Ann-Min Wong
32 secs

YELLOW is an experimental reflection on anti-Asian racism, explored through the materiality of found 16mm film.

The Chinese character for Yellow, written as 黄 (Huang/Wong), is an East Asian last name representing power and prosperity. But as an immigrant, this beauty of Yellow becomes incommensurable with the discrimination of Yellow. And how can one refute a slur that is one’s own name?

This short, 30-second film attempts to reclaim the power of names amidst dispossession. Despite life's rain and thunder, the yellow of our fires continue to burn bright.

Exhibitions

Full Circle Exhibition, Toronto Media Arts Centre, April 8-15, 2021
An installation of hybrid film creations contemplating the “anniversary” of the lockdowns of March 2020