Asian Cinema Club
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Hannah Marianetti, James Yu
Genres: comedy, documentary
Tones: contemplative, humorous
Two Oakland friends launch a t-shirt company as cover for a film club, then turn the GoPro on themselves between smoke breaks and identity crises. Asian-American selfhood, examined through walks, meals, and a lot of self-aware bullshitting.
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Identity-doc that knows identity-docs are a trap and films itself walking right in. The cynicism is sincere, which is the only kind I trust.
Identity processed out loud through GoPro POV and hangout drift — Marianetti and Yu build a docu-fiction hybrid that's Linklater rambles plus self-suspicion. The form is the thinking.
GoPro POV hangout drift treating Asian-American identity as something you process out loud with a friend — the docu-fiction hybrid is doing exactly what the form should do. T-shirt-company-as-cover-for-film-club is a great Oakland punchline.
Reviews
Hilariously self-aware... witty and cynical yet sincere