“Dear Suzie” writes over footage from the original film, The World of Suzie Wong (1960), directed by Richard Quine, to challenge its orientalist gaze and animate the silences of Asian women’s voices throughout the film.
Sound design by Matt Orenstein
Text & Voice: Muriel Leung (www.murielleung.com)
Sound: Matt Orenstein (www.mattorenstein.com)
In BONE CONFETTI, there are two types of survivors at the end of the world—lovers and ghosts who die, are revived, and die again. Each death and resurrection carves its way into the landscape of a wrecked city where skies are flocked by molten birds and trees grow in shades of ash. The same confetti floats between funeral and parade, wedding and hell. When all that is left is the terrible residue of memory, lovers and ghosts try their best to make do. They scale the horizon, collecting debris wherever they go in the attempt to fashion a new sense of humanity.
* Original poem first published in Gigantic Sequins.
