James T. Hong
Encyclopedia
James T. Hong is an Asian American
filmmaker currently based in Europe, whose works tend to focus on philosophical topics and figures and controversial race and class issues. His films and videos include Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Condor: A Film from California, The Form of the Good, Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, The Spear of Destiny, Suprematist Kapital, and The Denazification of MH about Martin Heidegger
.
He produced 731: Two Versions of Hell about Japan's Unit 731
in 2007.
Hong and Yin-Ju Chen released Lessons of the Blood in 2010.
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
filmmaker currently based in Europe, whose works tend to focus on philosophical topics and figures and controversial race and class issues. His films and videos include Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Condor: A Film from California, The Form of the Good, Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, The Spear of Destiny, Suprematist Kapital, and The Denazification of MH about Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...
.
He produced 731: Two Versions of Hell about Japan's Unit 731
Unit 731
was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese...
in 2007.
Hong and Yin-Ju Chen released Lessons of the Blood in 2010.
External links
- http://www.uniondocs.org/james-t-hong-an-antidote/
- http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/gast.php?id=1094
- http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1578
- IMDB entry
- http://www.sfbg.com/39/33/cover_james_t_hong.html
- http://www.zukunftsmusik.com