Abstract:

"Newly available, this documentary was produced in collaboration with performance artist Nicky Paraiso for his critically acclaimed multi-media performance at P.S. 122. Eleven different interviews with "Asian Boy's" are intercut with images of "fish out of water" in Chinatown and footage from the Miss Universe contest in the Philippines. The interviewees responses to requests for childhood stories range from humorous to hostile, from genuine to satirical and tellingly reveal their underlying ideas about race and identity."