The film offers an intimate view into the lives of three refugee women from Burma, whose migratory paths cross in Thailand and eventually meet when they resettle to central New York. Drawing upon methods of feminist oral history and ethno-fiction, the film traces glimmers of subjectivity that complicate any singular narrative of the refugee experience. As camera movements follow the textures of everyday life and work, a weave of sensorial fragments immerse audiences in women’s narratives of self, place, and belonging.
Emily Hong
Emily Hong is Seoul-born and New York-raised feminist anthropologist and filmmaker, currently pursuing a PhD at Cornell University. Her research, media projects, and activist engagements largely focus on Thailand and Burma, where she has worked as a trainer, campaigner, and researcher since 2008l.
Mariangela Mihai
Mariangela Mihai, an Anthropology and Film PhD student at Cornell University, has worked on issues of refugee political resettlement at Emory University’s Center and The International Rescue Committee. Select projects include: “”To Uphold The Law”” (2014), a film exploring ideologies of nationalism and anti-drone activism in Upstate N.Y; “”For My Art”” (2015), a two-channel video installation exploring the sensorial landscape of transition-era Burma/Myanmar through the figure of the performance artist.
Miasarah Lai
Miasarah Lai is director and Emmy winning cinematographer. She was a cinematographer of VICE News Tonight’s Abuse at Christian Kanakuk Kamps, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Hard News Longform. Her work has screened at Big Sky Film Festival, American Documentary Film Festival, Athens Ethnofest, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Jose Museum of Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art and Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. Outside of her cinematic work, she has facilitated and organized panels & workshops at CPH:DOX, Sundance Film Festival, SSFILM’s Doc Stories, the International Documentary Association’s Getting Reel, Cannes Docs, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, Haverford College, and others.