(im)possible asias
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(Im)Possible AsiasSebnem Baran, Jinhee Park, Anirban Baishya, Darshana S.
Mini
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Sebnem Baran looks at the connection between Europe and Asia through Fatih Akin’s Crossing the Bridge.
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The Bridge of Bosphorus in Istanbul that connects Asia with Europe
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Refugee life vests at the Aegean Coast. The ongoing refugee crisis goes counter to the syncretic imagination symbolized by the bridge.
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Jinhee Park’s post focuses on the film My Father’s Emails (Dir. Hong Jae-hee, 2012) and explores the filmmaker’s nostalgic desire of going back home to North Korea is expressed through the creation of an alternative dreamscape in the film.
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Anirban Baishya’s post focuses on the the documentary The Legend of Fat Mama that explores the memory and trauma of Chinese-Indians who were persecuted and expelled from India during the Indo-China border crisis.
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Chinese-Indians celebrate the Chinese New Year in the city of Kolkata in India.
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Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s post focuses on the film Gaddama (Dir Kamal, 2011) to focus on the experience of migrant workers in the Middle-East.
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Opening scene of the film showing domestic workers waiting for their sponsors at the airport in Saudi Arabia.
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A scene from the film that illustrates the precarious existence of migrant workers and the risk of dying in anonymity.