Film Screening: Within These Walls

Inspired by experiences of those detained, interrogated and processed at the U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay, Within These Walls(link opens in a new window/tab) is a film in which dance, memory, music, and poetry serve as a meditation on healing, resilience, and compassion. This U.S. Immigration Station is an International Site of Conscience, site of remembrance transformed and animated as part of a community-wide commemoration of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, speaking to the power of individuals and communities to transcend.

-- Q&A to follow with Lenora Lee (producer, choreography director) and Tatsu Aoki (director), moderated by Prof. Jingqiu Guan (Duke University Dance Program).

(Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024, 76 min, USA, English, Digital)

In association with Lenora Lee Dance, Lenora Lee Productions, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, and Asian Improv aRts, Asian Improv aRts Midwest, powered by Asian Improv Nation.
[Photo credit: Yi-Ting (Gama) Hsu photo by Hoa Huynh & Tien Nguyen]