 Photo courtesy of Banana Split, © 1991 Kip Fulbeck/Seaweed Productions Genre: Documentary/Experimental Video Data Bank |
This experimental video explores identity and biracial ethnicity issues, focusing on Fulbeck’s parents’ relationship with each other and their respective acclimations and rejections of each others’ cultures. Through interwoven narratives and media clips, this video also addresses ethnic dating patterns and stereotypes of Asian American men. (Courtesy of the Center for Asian American Media)
Calvin Ahlgren, “Asian American Experience Unreeled,” San Francisco Chronicle. March 8 1992.
Kip Fulbeck
http://www.seaweedproductions.com/
The director’s website includes biographical information and information on the Hapa Project and Fulbeck’s films and books.
Articles about Fulbeck and his work
Ito, Robert. “Self-Inflicted Paper Cuts.” AsianWeek. May 11-17, 2001.
http://www.asianweek.com/2001_05_11/ae1_kipfulbeck.html
Other
Banana Split was included in the Spring 2000 course “Sociological Perspectives on Asian Americans” taught by Satomi Furuichi at the University of Texas at Austin (see 4/12 for the film and accompanying readings)