VC Connect #22: F*** Your Bad Day
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Welcome to VC CONNECT, an online destination through which just some of the hundreds of films and media productions created by Visual Communications can be found for your enjoyment. Featured films include some of our VC Classics, as well as films made in the Digital Histories production program for older adults and the Armed With a Camera Fellowship for Emerging Artists. Click here to watch the complete showcase.
F*** Your Bad Day
Racial and sexual violence against marginalized communities have been long standing issues in the United States. These Armed With a Camera films are commentaries on fetishization, violence, and white supremacy that subvert your expectations.
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COLOR-BLIND (2019) by Sarah H. Cho
Dahlia and Freddy have been having an affair for years. When their relationship comes to an explosive head because of Dahlia's refusal to leave her husband for Freddy, Freddy discovers that he may not know her as well as he thinks.
COMFORT GIRLS (2014) by Eugene Lee Yang
In this disturbing and satirical K-pop music video, a new idol band of four sisters called the Comfort Girls undergo dramatic surgical transformations and are subjugated by a historical cast of male imperialists, all while singing and dancing to a modern, infectious Korean pop song.
HORNET’S REVENGE (2018) by Jing Niu
Hornet is working at her family’s restaurant when a customer starts harassing her. Split between doing what she’s told and seeking vengeance, Hornet must come face to face with her own anger.
MEN HELPING WOMEN (2019) by Isue Shin
An experimental exploration of the way male artists abuse their positions of power in lieu of mentorship. Voices speak back to a male monologue loosely consisting of “apologies” amidst sexual assault allegations, alluding that when there's more of us, we’re louder, and we’re not afraid.
OUR PLACE IN THE SKY (2015) by Yoko Okumura
Starla knows a place where pigtails are on animals and schoolgirls are educated. OUR PLACE IN THE SKY is a slam poetry film that pulls back the curtain on fetishization.
WHITE ON INFOMERCIAL (2010) by James Yamanoha
Politicians, police officers, and right-wing pundits all agree: White On™ is the best solution to the race problem since Jim Crow! This piece is a satirical look at white privilege in the United States, under the guise of an infomercial for a skin whitening cream.
