Country:China

Director:James T. Hong

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

James T. Hong twice tells the story of Unit 731, a Japanese laboratory in the Chinese town of Harbin, where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese occupation. The structure and cutting however make it clear that every story has more than one side. This is a painstaking study of truth and political manipulation. To say that San Francisco–based artist James T. Hong is a provocateur is to reduce him to a single defiant gesture. His moving image works are a sump-hole of chilling irony in which neo-fascist pronouncements vie for primacy with proto-liberal anxieties. “I am not a fanatic or a preacher,” the then budding but brash filmmaker said once, “I am an Asian.”

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