Far East of Eden
MovieTitle | Far East of Eden |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Dec 31, 2016 |
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Director | Bruce Yonemoto |
Production country | US |
Run time | 24 min. |
This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on the racism of the Center’s founder, James D. Phelan, and brings the story up to the present. Finley’s performance channels Phelan, one of the biggest proponents of anti-Japanese-immigration laws at the turn of the last century