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“Between the Lines offers rare interviews with over 15 major
Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as
Immigration, Language, Family, Memory, and Spirituality, it is a sophisticated
merging of Asian-American history and identity with the questions of
performance, voice, and image. This engaging documentary serves as poetry
reading, virtual anthology, and, perhaps most importantly, moving testimony
about gender, ethnicity, aesthetics, and creative choice. The carefully edited
interviews and poems read reflect the filmmaker's desire to show both
individual voice and diversity within the Asian-American women’s community.
Theoretically as rich as the images and poems provided, there is also an
implicit conversation in the video about the possibility and usefulness of an
Asian-American women’s aesthetic/poetic. Using carefully selected archival
images, historical footage, and brilliant photography as the scrim through
which we hear the poets, Between the Lines provides important and
lively viewing for literature, history, ethnic and women’s studies classes.” -
Joseph Boles, Visiting Scholar, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr.
A Yunah Hong Women Make Movies film. 60 minutes.
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