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Drifting City / director, Jeong Kim.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expatriation--China.
- Expatriation.
- Mexicans--China.
- Mexicans.
- Africans--China.
- Africans.
- East Asia.
- Travel.
- African diaspora.
- Immigrant populations.
- Immigration and emigration.
- Globalization.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Local Subjects:
- East Asia.
- Travel.
- African diaspora.
- Immigrant populations.
- Immigration and emigration.
- Globalization.
- China.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (65 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- In Chinese.
- Original language in English.
- Original language in Chinese.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- This film depicts the journey of a Mexican, Roberto, resident in China. On his way to renew his visa, Roberto meets an African at a railway station between China and Hong Kong. "Why is an African in China?" soon changes into a reflexive inquiry: "Why is a Mexican in China?" Roberto explores the African residents' community in China and finds many new friends. The film is thus multi- and trans-national, with a Korean director filming the process as a Mexican resident in China explores its African community. Drifting City is full of non-spatial images like railroad platforms, shopping malls, markets, urban buildings that keep floating among inter-spaces. Meanwhile, Roberto's first-person narration about his own experiences intersect with his image as he leads the camera around as if he were a local guide. With Roberto, guiding foreigners among tourists and natives, the film is autobiographical and essay-like, but also looks and feels expository in its crossing and merging views of first- and third-person, living or floating in the inter-spaces.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
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