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PROGRAM 8 10:00 a.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre Two

VC at 35: PART ONE

VC FILMFEST observes the 35th anniversary of Visual Communications with a look back at the organization’s groundbreaking 1970s works, which combined Super 8, 16mm, and video production as mediamaking tools to fundamentally re-represent the experiences of Asian American communities. This selection of works, by two of the organization’s co-founders and its former executive director, exemplifies what had come to be regarded as the “Visual Communications” look—deep-hued color, muscular and active hand-held photography, and an empathy for their subject matters.

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PIECES OF A DREAM
(United States, 1974) Dir./Wtr.: Eddie Wong
A lyrical, expressive film history of Chinese, Japanese and Filipino Americans on the Sacramento River delta who came to America to work the land. Their stories are told through a montage of voices from the past, adapted from Victor Nee and Brett de Bary’s Longtime Californ’. Co-founder of Visual Communications and current Executive Director of NAATA, Eddie Wong shot this intimate piece as part of his MFA at UCLA.
Video (originated on 16mm), 30 minutes, color, documentary