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Film friends! I wanted to post about some of the wonderful shorts I saw during @reelasian before the festival ends this week 
I Bought a Time Machine is one of the most delightful things I’ve seen all year. It’s not just a tonic for a dreadful year, but a really thoughtful examination of how we use fiction as an excuse to ask personal questions. It’s a doc by the way. With that title. Yes.
By showing us benign spots around a city and connecting them to political events, Trails makes the case for space as adaptable to the people that move into them. It’s a soft eye on Vietnamese identity in the US & how we have to remind ourselves of the things that demand justice.
Rong plays with tension and expectation so well. It’s rarer to see horror directed by women from this part of the world and it’s one that takes uncompromising revenge for the male gaze. In more ways than one…
A Lonely Afternoon is such a tender depiction of what it’s like being a kid in a big family. I thought about my 8 year old brother while watching this and imagined him getting up to the same antics. It’s rare to see a director so in touch with such a young character.
God’s Daughter Dances is yet another unique short from one of the most provocative young Korean directors I’ve encountered, where a trans woman has to navigate the bureaucracy of mandatory military service. I guarantee you will hear Sungbin’s name again in the future.
Ticket sales end tonight but you can keep watching till Thursday. Make sure to check these out, they’re some of the most exciting works of @reelasian this year!
