“Particularly prevalent are the Asian hologram advertisements that apparently occupy every cityscape in the future, from Blade Runner (1982) to A.I. (2001) to Minority Report (2002), and do we even need to start in on Ghost in the Shell (2017)?”
Tag: scifi
KQED review of Virtually Asian
“Suparak’s piece is immediate and her voice, narrating the words, is melodic and compelling. The over-dubbing of her acerbic observations on blockbuster films is a compelling prelude to other iterations of her work that will appear in fragments across digital platforms.”
Virtually Asian
A short video essay that looks at how white science fiction filmmakers fill the backgrounds of their futuristic worlds with hollow Asian figures while the main cast (if not the entirety of their fictional universe’s population) is devoid of actual Asian people.
Asian Futures series
Series of projects, performances, and texts on how white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of significant Asian people. A visual analysis of 60 years of mainstream science-fiction cinema.
Astria Suparak 