(im)possible asias

(Im)Possible AsiasSebnem Baran, Jinhee Park, Anirban Baishya, Darshana S.

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Sebnem Baran looks at the connection between Europe and Asia through Fatih Akin’s Crossing the Bridge.

The Bridge of Bosphorus in Istanbul that connects Asia with Europe

Refugee life vests at the Aegean Coast. The ongoing refugee crisis goes counter to the syncretic imagination symbolized by the bridge.

Jinhee Park’s post focuses on the film My Father’s Emails (Dir. Hong Jae-hee, 2012) and explores the filmmaker’s nostalgic desire of going back home to North Korea is expressed through the creation of an alternative dreamscape in the film.

Anirban Baishya’s post focuses on the the documentary The Legend of Fat Mama that explores the memory and trauma of Chinese-Indians who were persecuted and expelled from India during the Indo-China border crisis.

Chinese-Indians celebrate the Chinese New Year in the city of Kolkata in India.

Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s post focuses on the film Gaddama (Dir Kamal, 2011) to focus on the experience of migrant workers in the Middle-East.

Opening scene of the film showing domestic workers waiting for their sponsors at the airport in Saudi Arabia.

A scene from the film that illustrates the precarious existence of migrant workers and the risk of dying in anonymity.