synopsis - Shattered

(Canada/2007/Director: Karin Lee/20 min/Experimental/ Top Dollar Sisters Productions)

Language: English

100 years after the Anti-Asian Vancouver race riots, media artist Karin Lee questions the relationship between immigration, labour and business while commenting on the current phenomenon of globalization. This experimental video brings together two historic perspectives of the riots while locating it within contemporary Vancouver.

Shattered was created during an artist-in-residency at VIVO Media Arts in Vancouver. It was originally a 10-minute video installation set in two site-specific locations in Vancouver’s Chinatown and Japantown for SWARM – the city-wide Artist-run-Centre’s events that took place in September 2007. 

破碎

(加拿大/2007/導演: Karin Lee/20分鐘/實驗片/Top Dollar Sisters製作) 

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為了紀念溫哥華反亞裔暴動一百週年，視覺藝術家Karin Lee以實驗手法鋪陳這段歷史，通過亞裔暴動事件中兩個受創最重的華埠和日本村的經歷, 質疑全球化浪潮下移民、勞工和商業之間的關係。該片是去年由本地藝術家發起的SWARM活動的作品之一。