美国亲戚

American Relative

2022，单通道高清影像，26分28秒

杨圆圆作品

摄影：Carlo Nasisse

剪辑：Leon Yan

混音：Stas Gagary

《美国亲戚》的故事在旧金山和广东台山两地展开拍摄。在影片的上半段，美国华裔周碧华道出她早逝父亲隐藏多年的秘密。1980年中国大陆改革开放，她和姐妹们第一次来到父亲的故乡，才得知在这里有一家子同父异母的亲戚。在影片的下半段，周碧华的中国亲戚们娓娓道来祖屋的故事。如今，那些蕴含着父辈出海美国谋生的艰辛的祖宅，正在中国的城市化进程中迅速消逝…

2022, single-channel HD video, 26min28sec

A Film by Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Cinematography by: Carlo Nasisse

Editor: Leon Yan

Sound Mixer: Stas Gagary

The story of “American Relative” was filmed in San Francisco and Toisan, Guangdong. In the first half of the film, Chinese-American Pat Chu Nishimoto reveals the secret that her father, who died many years ago, had hidden for long time. In 1980, when mainland China was reforming and opening up, her family came to her father’s hometown Toisan for the first time, and surprisingly discovered that they have a family of half-relatives there. In the second half of the film, her Chinese relatives tell the story of their ancestral house. Today, in the process of urbanization in China, the architecture in Toisan that tells story of hardships of the diaspora Chinese are rapidly  disappearing…