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Forever, Chinatown / Good Medicine Picture Company presents ; a James Q. Chan film ; a co-production of Good Medicine Picture Company and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presented in association with Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) ; producer and director James Q. Chan ; producer, Corey Tong.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 030 801
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wong, Frank.
- Artists--California--San Francisco.
- Artists.
- Diorama--California--San Francisco.
- Diorama.
- Models and modelmaking.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--20th century.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Models and modelmaking--California--San Francisco.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Short films -- United States.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. stamping
- Place of Publication:
- [Harriman, NY] : New Day Films, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital optical
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Forever, Chinatown is a documentary of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth. This film takes the journey of one individual and maps it to a rapidly changing urban neighborhood from 1940s to present day. A meditation on memory, community, and preserving one's own legacy, Frank's three-dimensional miniature dioramas become rare portals into a historic neighborhood and a window to the artist's filtered and romanticized memories and emotional struggles. In his bargain with immortality, Frank announces plans to cremate his exquisite works with him upon his death in order to 'live inside them forever' in his afterlife.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Frank Wong.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2016.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.
- ISBN:
- 9781574484250
- 1574484257
- OCLC:
- 988033888
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