FROM SPIKES TO SPINDLES + FEI TIEN, GODDESS IN FLIGHT

Christine Choy FROM SPIKES TO SPINDLES 1976, 46 min, 16mm-to-DCP This raw, gutsy portrait of New York’s Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.

Christine Choy FEI TIEN, GODDESS IN FLIGHT 1983, 26 min, 16mm-to-DCP Based on the play, “Pigeons”, by Ginny Lim, this film focuses on the meeting between an older immigrant and a younger American-born woman living in NYC’s Chinatown. The linkages in their pasts and possible futures unfold as their friendship grows.

Total running time: ca. 75 min.

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