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So proud to be able to share these poems from Salvadoran writer Jorge Galán translated by Alexandra Lytton Regalado (@alexlregalado) today over at the Offing (@theoffingmag which you should all go check out and spread the word. I loved how the natural world weaves through this trio of poems. I have lots of cool translations lined up for the rest of the year. We go on break in August, but we’ll be back in September. Link in my bio as well.
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With a collection of short films by Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker Jess X. Snow now playing on the Criterion Channel, read Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation with Snow about these exquisitely textured, sensorially immersive works. 💙 Head to the link in our bio to for the full interview.
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🙏📽️truly honored to have had this conversation with dear friend Robin DG Kelley @rdgkelley on the @criterioncollection ‘s journal — 𝘊𝘜𝘙𝘙𝘌𝘕𝘛; about the processes, life lessons, and collaborations that made this body of short films possible. Read via 🔗link in profile. Thank you @wenyeow for all your editorial insights. It was profound to reflect on this decade long journey and how through these films, these characters; I’ve been able to forgive my parents, let go of the performance of the model minority & come to terms with the transience of this life. Perhaps we only have these brief moments, but cinema lives forever. We may never look the same as we did that one day on the other side of the shutter—be struck by the same revelation twice, or witness sunlight fall the same way upon a grandmother’s wrinkled hand on our homeland on the other side of the Earth. After we return to the soil, film allows these moments to be frozen in time, for generations to come. I can’t wait for you all to see my forthcoming features one day on the big screen. 💓🎐 🤞 thank you robin for the generous intro, and thank you @_ash_clark @xiao.qing.a for finding a home for my shorts. 🌀 Big shout out to all the friends and collaborators who went on this journey with me and had the patience to let me learn and discover with them. I wasn’t able to shout everyone out, but this conversation specifically mentions my time working with @sheldonchau @zamarinwahdat @jinjabrew @theillustriouspearl @poppyliu @ohyunglia @treyalam @traciakemi1 @sueann.leung @jeremyaleung @tierranarrative @frislysoberanis @son.noelia @joecar.hanna @su.zhoou @prehistoricjerk @shirleylchen @cialikethey on the short films you can now watch on the Criterion Channel. 🐉 Featured image by DP @_eileeny_ of me and producer @fruit.sutra on the set of I Wanna Become the Sky.
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Really honored to be able to bring the poetry of Kim Eon Hee translated by @sojeflux to @theoffingmag. Go check it out and spread the word. The translation department next month in April will focus on poetry as well so stay tuned! I’m excited at what I have coming in terms of that and also wanna give a heads up that we open for submissions in April as well so get your packets together, I’d love to consider your translations.
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🌱Roots That Reach Toward The Sky🌱 [珍珠堂] • short film • • writer/director @jessxsnow • * 2026.01.01 UPDATE: watch now on the Criterion Channel * Some frame grabs from Jess’ tender and affecting short film, coming off premieres at BFI London, then @sffilm and recently at @vcmediaorg LAAPFF. Thank you Jess for bringing me on this journey and trusting me to be your collaborator and friend. Proud of you! Filmed in NYC (Bensonhurst & Chinatown). Shot on @kodak_shootfilm Super 16mm on the @arri_rental @arri 416 camera. starring • @shirleylchen @cialikethey @pearl_wu_woo Producers • @akemilook @frislysoberanis @eris_the_wanderer @hanyumeng.nyc Co-Writer • @kityanpoet Cinematographer • ✋ Editors • @guangweiddd @andrew.migliori Gaffer • my man @chewchomp 1st AC • @elohe11o 👊 2nd AC • @casianorhamer Loader • @taylor___lee Color • @stephopho @raremediumtv Prod Design • @priscachoe Art • @cynnya @wyntonw UPM • @grocpot Associate Producer • @terrymishu Sound • @ishkwaazhe Sound Design • @sitr_zhang Re-Recording Mixer • @su.zhoou HMU • @r0seandth0rn Scripty • @tebogomalebogo AD • @woohoccw G&E • @andreas.nicholas @chheangkea Background • @bohanphoenix mayamsinghal @tingrolls @traciakemi1 @cinerebel860 @kiento.o @ashgohhua @jeremyaleung @prehistoricjerk @bonny.with.the.y @thehalfblindprincess Music • @treyalam Sound Mix • @chuckykim Guzheng • @clayruh Science Advisor • @shawangunkflats TCM Consultant • @zoeyxinyigong Titles & Credits • @jeremyaleung VFX • @arcanum_post_production @andrew.migliori BTS • @mengwencao @cieradunbar PAs • @franz_ayas @lori.ro_ Supported by • Sloan Science in Film + @apainstitute @nyugradfilm #indiefilmmaking #cinematography #aapiheritagemonth #supportaapi #aapi #asiancinema #asianamerican #filmmaking #shotonfilm #shotonkodak #arri416 #arri #kodak #shortfilm #chinatownnyc #nyc
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4 shorts now showing on 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙀𝙇 🎞️@criterioncollection 💫 In a desperate search for home, my characters escape their volatile families of origin, develop teleportation powers, unleash the dragons within them, and lose themselves in self pleasure, the relief of chinese traditional medicine, or a tender embrace from one friend to enter a portal to another world. Each film is a love letter, a life lesson and an archive of the imaginative ways diasporic queers survive familial trauma and empire. 💌 🙏to every friend, actor, film worker, production assistant, mentor, donor and programmer whose heart and work made these stories possible. ✨🍃𝑺𝑨𝑭𝑬 𝑨𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑺 (2020) (featured still) starring @poppyliu @__veralam DoP/vfx @son.noelia co-writer/producer @middleagedtransguy co-editor @immirappp 🎵 @kaylabriet sound design/mix @prehistoricjerk producer @raawwwwrrrrrrrrr line producer @melsaboo 🌠💄𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑻𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝑲𝒀 (2021) starring @theillustriouspearl @jinjabrew @fenton_li @theyiqingzhao Dop @zamarinwahdat 🎵score @ohyunglia songs @jinjabrew @ohyunglia @tutengster costume design @sueann.leung produced by @andreas.nicholas @eris_the_wanderer executive producer @andrewahnfilms editors me @yuanyuan_ofcl @prehistoricjerk co producers @frislysoberanis @toneontop @hanyumeng.nyc 💡 @shulives @sammotamedi color @ayumiashleycolor 🐉✨𝑰 𝑾𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑨 𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑬 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑲𝒀 (2023) starring me & @joecar.hanna co-director @traciakemi1 cinematography @_eileeny_ editor @andrew.migliori animation @jeremyaleung producers @ozuwasright @fruit.sutra EP @culturestrike @eslvis 🎶 @treyalam mix @su.zhoou VFX @douglasstichbury 💡@anika.e.g HMU @r0seandth0rn 🌱𝑹𝑶𝑶𝑻𝑺 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑪𝑯 𝑻𝑶𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑲𝒀 (2024) starring @shirleylchen @cialikethey @pearl_wu_woo co-writer @middleagedtransguy DP @sheldonchau producers @akemilook @frislysoberanis @hanyumeng.nyc @eris_the_wanderer editors @guangweiddd @andrew.migliori 🎵 @treyalam PD @priscachoe sound design @sitr_zhang + more friend shorts also on the channel: 🥭 @wewerethescenery_film @one_day_this_kid_film by @heyitsalexfarah two by @sofiacamargo__ 🫶
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🎞️ 2025 ends with my short films on the @criterioncollection channel for five years starting in 2026. 🎉 This is the first time they are publicly available in north america. Seven years went into the making of these four films. They were only possible due to every actor, crew member, post production worker, crowd-funding donor and programmer who took a chance on me and gone on this journey with me. This write up on Current (link in profile), is so kind. 🥲 Thank you @_ash_clark @xiao.qing.a for the work you do & finding a home for these films amongst the company of auteurs who first inspired me on this journey ten years ago. 🪺 Independent shorts are oftentimes a director’s most personal and formative works, flawed, yet full of lessons and wonder. I made these films because they helped me free myself & feel a little less alone. I hope they can help you too. 🫶 Over the next few days I’ll be sharing some reflections on this body of work and the collaborators who have helped me bring each story to life.
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Read “Selections from The Garden of Poets,” a poem by Leónidas Lamborghini, translated from Spanish by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman. Visit my link in bio to read the full piece. Thank you Anayvelyse, Adriana Hildalgo editora, and the Lamborghini estate for the trust with these poems. This kicks off my role as Poetry in Translation Editor at The Offing and I couldn’t think of a better way to do that than with this incredible work and I hope we have an entire book in the future. My co-editor Jacqueline Leung who handles Prose in Translation and I have so much in store for 2026. Please share widely and enjoy. It brings me so much joy to see this out in the world today.
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Announcing “Descending into Motion” This program explores indigenous thought and cosmovisions through innovative short film animations. Part of Cinefilmu’s annual program Midwest Movements where we invite midwest curators and organizations, this year invites Génesis Mancheren Ab'äj, currently rooted in Detroit and a member of Tierra Narrative, a film and literary production house dedicated to counternarratives emerging from the Central American isthmus and its diaspora. This program was originally meant to premiere at the Queens Museum in New York City. Due to the museum's complicity with the genocide in Palestine, Génesis and Tierra Narrative, in collaboration with the filmmakers, pulled the program. In solidarity with Palestine and all indigenous people, we will screen it at Cinefilmu on November 22nd. 🎬 Screening: 1) Angakusajaujuq - Shaman's Apprentice, 2) Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal, 3) Biidaaban / The Dawn Comes, 4) NANGULVI , 5) The Things You Know But Cannot Explain 🕐 Screening Time: 12:30-1:30PM 📍 Dress Shop, Indigenous Roots 788 E 7th St, St. Paul, MN 55106 RSVP now — link in 🅱️ℹ️⭕.
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ROOTS 🫜🫚 - a short I directed about the healing power of acupuncture, TCM and queer chosen family in times of anti-Asian violence is closing out its festival journey this Sunday in a joint program with @phillyaaff 🌉 and @dcpfaf 🇵🇸 in Philadelphia. An honor to be in conversation, solidarity and support with the Palestinian struggle in this collection of interconnected short films from Palestine to East Asian diaspora, to Korea and the Philippines. “Whether through more straightforward narratives or poetic pieces, investigative documentaries or personal essays, these stories explore the parallel struggles and impacts of colonial violence, from Palestine to East Asia, and among the diaspora in the empire’s core.” Curated by @v0munculus and @kamelworld, in collaboration with the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival @dcpfaf 🎟️ tickets : paaff2025.eventive.org 📍 Location 215 990 Spring Garden Street 1st Floor November 9, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 PM EST Thank you to the team that made roots that reach toward the sky possible: Actors: @shirleylchen @cialikethey @pearl_wu_woo Produced by @akemilook @frislysoberanis @eris_the_wanderer @hanyumeng.nyc @tierranarrative Co-Writer @kityanpoet Edited by @guangweiddd Additional Editor / Post Producer @andrew.migliori Original Score @treyalam 🎶 Production design @priscachoe art direction @cynnya @wyntonw UPM @grocpot Associate producer @terrymishu Gaffer @chewchomp 1st AC @elohe11o 2nd AC @casianorhamer Sound Mixer @ishkwaazhe Sound design & foley @sitr_zhang Re-Recording Mixer @su.zhoou Film Loader @taylor___lee Color @stephopho @raremediumtv Hair & Makeup @r0seandth0rn Script Supervisor @tebogomalebogo Assistant Director @woohoccw Grip & Electric @andreas.nicholas @chheangkea Guzheng Instrumentalist @clayruh Science Advisor @shawangunkflats TCM consultant @zoeyxinyigong Titles & Credits @jeremyaleung VFX @arcanum_post_production @andrew.migliori
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A lil grocery chopping before painting never hurt nobody You know what time it is.. It’s #inktober 😁🎃🦇 Leave a🖤emoji if you think I should have gone crazy with the ink & filled it in Leave a 〰️ or 🔲 or ✍🏽 emoji if you think I should have left it as an outline #fypppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp #exploremore #drawing #portraits #painting #ink #detroit #watercolor #watercolorconnections #drawingtips #paintingtips #artclass #grocery #groceryshopping #batman
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After her mother’s traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties. Closing Night Gala Programme | Roots that Reach Towards the Sky | Directed by Jess X. Snow Roots that Reach Towards the Sky screening on June 22nd at 7:30PM at @paradiseonbloor! 🎞️ #fofs2025
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