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Actor Michelle Okkyung Lee

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Mandala 1981 ( 6.6)

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Strangers' Reunion 2019

A Korean-American adoptee travels to Hong Kong to meet her biological mother for the first time without a translator in the room. They are separated by a gulf of time, language, and culture.

Refuse 2023

A Korean American man attempts to clean his filthy room, but finds that something sinister lies within the trash.

Actor Okkyung Lee

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Okkyung Lee is an experimental cellist, improviser, and composer.

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The Illinois Parables 2016 ( 6.7)

From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?

38 2021 ( 6)

Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a 38-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social media presence of the young woman who broke up her relationship. The latest entry in Chew and Durand’s ongoing examination of the embodied experience of our hybrid online-IRL existence, 38 mines contemporary life’s nuanced exchanges between longing and looking, voyeurism and the desire to be seen.

In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun 2022

Borrowing its title from the memoir of early Japanese suffragette Hiratsuka Raichō, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun plunges deep into an oceanic vortex of saturated color and fleeting archival images, conjuring moments from the history of Japanese women’s movements in a headlong montage of bodies in protest, pulsating into abstraction.