Forever, Chinatown
By: Good Medicine Picture Company presents ; a James Q. Chan film ; a co-production of Good Medicine Picture Company and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presented in association with Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) ; producer and director James Q. Chan ; producer, Corey Tong
Contributors: Good Medicine Picture Company; Independent Television Service; Center for Asian American Media; New Day Films
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781574484250
Subjects: Models and modelmaking; Artists; Diorama; History
Description: Forever, Chinatown is a documentary of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth. This film takes the journey of one individual and maps it to a rapidly changing urban neighborhood from 1940s to present day. A meditation on memory, community, and preserving one's own legacy, Frank's three-dimensional miniature dioramas become rare portals into a historic neighborhood and a window to the artist's filtered and romanticized memories and emotional struggles. In his bargain with immortality, Frank announces plans to cremate his exquisite works with him upon his death in order to 'live inside them forever' in his afterlife.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.

Frank Wong.

DVD ; NTSC.

In English; closed-captioned in English.