I’m currently taking a course called “Mediating Asianness” with Prof Danielle Wong and I absolutely love the material that we’re reading and the way in which the syllabus is walking through different modules of representation and embodiment. I’m super stoked to be looking closer at this film and how it relates to story, narrative, and memory.
I watched this for the first time last Summer and was blown away by the aesthetics achieved by several 18 year old girls in 1991. It’s really incredible when you consider the types of media that emerged that strangely echo the styles that Sandi Tan was so interested in.
It’s still on Netflix so I watched it again last night. If you are a film junkie or were really into the washed-out 90s culture that boasted ambivalence, outsider-culture, and punk margins then I definitely recommend you check it out.