Richard Fung Movies

  • 1993
    Zero Patience

    Zero Patience

    Zero Patience

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    The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the...

    Zero Patience
  • 2009
    Monster in the Closet

    Monster in the Closet

    Monster in the Closet

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    A two-headed monster grabs a little girl's backpack, which leads to a transformation.

    Monster in the Closet
  • 1986
    Chinese Characters

    Chinese Characters

    Chinese Characters

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    Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese...

    Chinese Characters
  • 2000
    Sea in the Blood

    Sea in the Blood

    Sea in the Blood

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    Home movies and family photographs mixed with drawings and texts tell the story of a family that has lived with disease.

    Sea in the Blood
  • 1990
    Steam Clean

    Steam Clean

    Steam Clean

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    A Gay Men’s Health Crisis sex education PSA in which an interracial gay male couple hooks up at a bath house, having steamy sex safely.

    Steam Clean
  • 2012
    Dal Puri Diaspora

    Dal Puri Diaspora

    Dal Puri Diaspora

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    Growing up in Trinidad, Richard Fung loved dal puri roti. In this epic culinary quest he sets out to discover where this spicy flat bread was born....

    Dal Puri Diaspora
  • 1998
    School Fag

    School Fag

    School Fag

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    In a courageous, straight into the camera, monologue the film maker tells us what it's like to be the school fag. The only one that is out about...

    School Fag
  • 1996
    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry

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    Dirty Laundry speculates upon the buried narratives of gender and sexuality in Chinese-Canadian history of the 19th century, when Chinese communities...

    Dirty Laundry
  • 2008
    Rex vs. Singh

    Rex vs. Singh

    Rex vs. Singh

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    In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy. Their story becomes a...

    Rex vs. Singh
  • 2024
    The Enigma Of Harold Sonny Ladoo

    The Enigma Of Harold Sonny Ladoo

    The Enigma Of Harold Sonny Ladoo

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    In The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo Richard Fung draws on a 20-year-old archive of video interviews by Trinidadian filmmaker Christopher Laird, a...

    The Enigma Of Harold Sonny Ladoo
  • 2018
    Nang by Nang

    Nang by Nang

    Nang by Nang

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    Nang has written her own script. Born in the Trinidadian village of Basse Terre in 1934, she grew up poor, illegitimate, mixed-race and female, but...

    Nang by Nang
  • 1991
    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

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    On January 8, 1989 a Pickering, Ontario flea market was robbed. Witnesses reported the robbers consisted of one white male and four Blacks. Later...

    Out of the Blue
  • 2020
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    With a travel ban in place, Richard and his partner Tim, are stranded as the only guests in a small riad in the Dades Valley in southeast Morocco.

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  • 1990
    Fighting Chance

    Fighting Chance

    Fighting Chance

    11990HD

    This video focuses on the experiences of four Asian men. Each person is in a different stage of HIV infection and each has significant experiences...

    Fighting Chance
  • 2016
    Re:Orientations

    Re:Orientations

    Re:Orientations

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    In 1984, Richard Fung released his seminal first documentary Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. Featuring 14 women and men in Toronto of South,...

    Re:Orientations
  • 2007
    Jehad in Motion

    Jehad in Motion

    Jehad in Motion

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    Jehad Aliweiwi is a Palestinian Canadian who lives in Toronto but regularly returns to visit his family in Hebron. Rendered on two screens, Jehad in...

    Jehad in Motion
  • 2002
    Islands

    Islands

    Islands

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    Islands is an experimental video that deconstructs a film by John Huston to comment on the Caribbean‚s relationship to the cinematic image. A...

    Islands
  • 1984
    Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians

    Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians

    Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians

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    Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Orientations...

    Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians
  • 1990
    My Mother’s Place

    My Mother’s Place

    My Mother’s Place

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    My Mother's Place is an experimental documentary focusing on the artist's mother, a third-generation Chinese-Trinidadian who at 80 still has vivid...

    My Mother’s Place
  • 1988
    The Way to My Father’s Village

    The Way to My Father’s Village

    The Way to My Father’s Village

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    In the fall of 1986, Richard Fung made his first visit to his father's birthplace, a village in southern Guangdong, China. This experimental...

    The Way to My Father’s Village