SYNOPSIS

[EN] ‘Forbidden City’ draws in parallel an unexplained instance of violence committed against the filmmaker’s late grandmother, the constant threat of redevelopment and destruction present in the history of the broader Chinatown project, and the discovery of the filmmaker’s grandmother in archival footage depicting the last days of Detroit’s Chinatown. Moving through personal historical ellipses, the film explores the unelaborated story of the filmmaker’s grandmother, a former Detroit Chinatown restaurant worker. An inherited jade necklace guides an investigation of the gaps present in this story. The film shows Chinatown to be a place on the precipice of disappearance, existing as a space forged through colonial imagination. The film uses this personal story to consider how a space like Chinatown persists and resists.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Réalisation

  Devin Allen

• Production

  Devin Allen

• Référent(e)

  Devin Allen

• Vente

  Devin Allen