Film by Stephanie Yang at APAture 2008 in SF

Stephanie Yang is screening a new experimental short as a part of the APAture film/video night on Saturday, September 20th. This 2 minute long film and is based on a short poem that she wrote while in Taiwan earlier this year with a Taiwanese aboriginal folk song soundtrack arranged and performed by jazz vocalist Jen Shyu. Program: KEEP IT REEL Date: Saturday, September 20 Time: 8-10 pm (Film is the first to screen) Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street @ 3rd Street, SF Stephanie Yang is a mixed-race, Taiwanese/European American artist living in the Bay Area. Stemming from her experiences of being hapa, much of her work focuses on the amorphous lines between race, identity and self in urban settings. Her films have screened nationwide in a variety of queer, people of color, and Taiwanese-American spaces. Currently, she is exploring interdisciplinary and collaborative projects with artists in San Francisco and Vancouver, digging into metaphors of home and the vulnerabilities of desire. She is a writer, a collage artist, and filmmaker. For more information about APAture and this program, check out their website: www.kearnystreet.org Visit Stephanie Yang's website: www.shiftingnarratives.com