Emily Ting | 2007 | USA, China
When filmmaker Emily Ting was asked by her father to return to Asia and take over the family business, she didn’t exactly know how to say ‘no.’ Promising herself she would try it out for just one year, she traded in her friends, her filmmaking pursuits, and her love of New York for a grueling new life as CEO in training in one of Hong Kong’s most notorious toy companies.
Two years later, she’s still there – with no end in sight.
From picking up the slack left behind by a runaway brother to steering a sinking company on the brink of bankruptcy, Emily finds herself getting more and more stuck in a life she didn’t choose for herself. But her biggest challenge yet is in trying to reconnect with an absentee father whose passion for his business far outshines his relationship with his family.
In an attempt to come to terms with her new life, Emily turns the camera on herself and her family and the result is an incredibly honest and at times bittersweet family portrait that examines the price we end up paying when business and family become one.
“Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe” Official Trailer
Harry Kim | 2008 | USA
From 2000 to 2007, director Harry Kim documented the “life and crimes” of artist David Choe, as he rose from unknown “tagger” to reach his current level of fame as a muralist, painter, and illustrator. We see everything from Choe’s search for dinosaurs in the heart of the Congo to the way Choe literally beats himself up physically while painting, as the film takes us along on a reckless ride befitting the colorful and idiosyncratic street artist. Not only do we receive a firsthand look into Choe’s creative process, we also watch as he grows and matures as a man.
DIRTY HANDS successfully captures the manic desire for both adventure and excess that fuels both Choe’s manic creativity and self-destructive compulsions such as his uncontrollable kleptomania, using a dazzling, high-energy visual style that incorporates a variety of mediums and Choe’s art. By pushing the limits of the documentary film medium, Harry Kim has truly succeeded in giving us the true David Choe experience.
2 comments:
Damn, this was the day I wanted to watch some movies. Esp the David Choe one. And the Family Inc one looks awesome.
How was it?
Those 2 movies were good... especially the David Choe movie.
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