Identity Movies

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...

Pisces is an art film which explores ritual, identity, and transformation, drawing from Lovecraftian mythos, Chinese Folk ritual, Five Elemental...

A mother tries to give what she sees as the best to her daughter.

Inspired by the viral true story of Panchi-kun, an infant macaque rejected by his mother at Ichikawa City Zoo, Japan. In this fictionalized narrative...

A story about nostalgia for the city, for an unforgettable person and time spent with him. A memory of that "cosmic" encounter in the 1990s, which...

A dreamlike portrait of Akhira unraveling beneath the weight of her own reflection. A meditation on loneliness, transformation, and the haunting...

As puberty draws near, a young Seventh-day Adventist girl’s secret acts of self-expression threaten the beliefs and expectations that have...

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long...

Rise and Fall is a two-channel video installation by artist Fiona Tan, exploring the relationship between memory, time and identity. Two women from...

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese...

Lorraine Carter lives a quiet, contemptuous life in the mundane suburbs of Lincoln. She is restless, discontented and dreams of what once was and...

In Ahmedabad, a city where alcohol exists more as rumor than reality, two hostel students step out on a lazy afternoon to eat biryani, wander through...

As day turns to night, a solitary figure remains fixed before the camera while the world around him repeats itself in an endless cycle. As familiar...

Inbecoming, the art of becoming no one

An art dealer brokers a final exchange.

A short film about facing one's identity.

Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the...

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his...