Yellow Peril (2017)
8′ x 5′
Yellow Peril (2017) is a commentary on national exceptionalism and the palpability of public memory. It appropriates ‘Welcome – Portraits of America’ (2007), the official immigration welcome video made in partnership with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and overlays on it the transcript of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the US’s first ever total immigration ban on an entire nationality for 61 years.
The film is projected onto a steel frame filled with water. A manipulated version of the original Portraits of America soundtrack – also the score of Disney’s Epcot fireworks show – is timed to the appearance of each paragraph in the Chinese Exclusion Act.
8′ x 5′
Yellow Peril (2017) is a commentary on national exceptionalism and the palpability of public memory. It appropriates ‘Welcome – Portraits of America’ (2007), the official immigration welcome video made in partnership with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and overlays on it the transcript of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the US’s first ever total immigration ban on an entire nationality for 61 years.
The film is projected onto a steel frame filled with water. A manipulated version of the original Portraits of America soundtrack – also the score of Disney’s Epcot fireworks show – is timed to the appearance of each paragraph in the Chinese Exclusion Act.
