Your Day Is My Night with Skype Q & A – Screening with short Warmth

Friday, November 15
6:30 pm

Your Day Is My Night
2013 / USA / Mandarin, Spanish, and English with English subtitles / 63 min / DCP Director/Writer: Lynne Sachs
Cast: Che Chang-Qing, Yi Chun Cao, Yueh Hwa Chan (Linda), Kam Yin Tsui, Yun Xiu Huang, Ellen Ho, Sheut Hing Lee, Veraalba Santa Torres
Print Source: Lynne Sachs
Skype Q & A

Revealing a Chinatown in the heart of New York City that few knew existed or will ever see, this award winning, innovative ‘dramagory’ uses true accounts and a unique form of story telling to weave an engaging portrayal of astonishing “shift bed” life, something that has remained quietly necessary for over a century. In this captivating tale, a bed becomes a stage as actual stories are told by individuals, all of whom have lived or are living in such conditions, where immigrant survival and personal and political challenges lay at the root. This production was inspired by experiences relayed by the director’s aged uncle of a great calamity in Brooklyn when a plane crashed in 1960, burning several ‘hot bed houses’ where working people who could not afford their own apartments slept in shifts; an unknown number of people perished. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, autobiographical monologues, and conversations shot in various locations, this provocative documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy, and urban life with a warmth that helps one recognize new meanings in small actions.

Screening with

Warmth

2012 / Belarus/ 20 min / Digital File Director: Victor Asliuk
Print Source: Victor Asliuk
Enveloped by frozen frozen winter landscapes, steam rises around workers inside of a factory in Smilavichy, a small town not far from Minsk. They are making felt boots that are then sold all over the world.