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Christine Choy Retrospective

Fifty years of an Asian American film-maker who filmed what the official record left out, in two programmes.

Festival

At Bertha DocHouse.

Christine Choy has been pointing a camera at labour, prisons, immigration and resistance since the 1970s, was nominated for an Oscar, and is in the Library of Congress, and almost none of it has been easy to see in London.

On 14 October, two shorts: From Spikes to Spindles, a 1976 portrait of a Chinatown nobody was filming, where the young and the old joined to fight police brutality and developers; and Bittersweet Survival, from 1982, on the reception given to Southeast Asian refugees in America, from fishermen in Monterey to the poorest streets of Philadelphia.

On 17 October, the newly restored Mississippi Triangle of 1984, about the Delta, where Chinese, Black and white lives met around cotton and labour - the Chinese community having been brought south to work the plantations after the Civil War.

Where
The Brunswick, WC1N 1AW
Nearest station
Russell Square · 2 min walk

14 and 17 October; Adult £9, senior and student £7

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