Title Forever, Chinatown / a James Q. Chan film ; Good Medicine Picture Company presents ; 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

Published [Newburgh, New York] : New Day Films, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (032 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences Summary 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 Event Originally produced by New Day Films in 2016 Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from title frame (Kanopy, viewed May 29, 2020) Subject Wong, Frank, 1932- Artists -- California -- San Francisco Diorama -- California -- San Francisco Models and modelmaking -- California -- San Francisco Artists Diorama Models and modelmaking SUBJECT Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century Subject California -- San Francisco California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown Genre/Form documentary film. Biographical films Documentary films History Internet videos Nonfiction films Internet videos. Biographical films. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Vidéos sur Internet. Films biographiques. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Form Streaming video Author Chan, James Q., film director, film producer. Tong, Corey, film producer. Good Medicine Picture Company, production company. Independent Television Service, production company. New Day Films, publisher.

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