Sarang
Experimental short film, 2 min 56 sec.
2022
Sarang bathes in the sun;
Sarang is held;
Sarang finds comfort in their bed.
Sarang contemplates… the breeze blows by. They rest.
Sarang sits.
Sarang is a gender-nonconforming corpse composed of a yellow mannequin head sewn to my used jeans and corduroy jacket. Their inner monologue traverses quotidian moments between the San Luis Obispo “oriental market”, a suburban park, and a rural grass field, before returning to the comfort of their bed. In Sarang, I examine the displacement of second-generation diasporic east Asians, small towns as sites for racialized queerness, and the alienating effects of immigration and assimilation, while queering linear notions of time, space through experimental narrative.