print   back 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown 10 minutes, 2009 You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself 'what used to be there?' You are only vaguely aware of the district's shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops. 10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown a film by Shelly Silver produced by Karin Chien voiceover by Lu Yu, Wai Ching Ho, Johnson Chong commissioned by MoCA/The Museum of Chinese in America for The Chinatown Film Project research Teri Chan, Nina Lam translation Jeremy Chien, Lu Yu sound mix Ian Stynes, Great City Productions color correction John Vladic, Deluxe New York thanks Tim Bell, Ed Bowes, Nancy Bulalacao, Cheng Hong Chen, KK Chen, Choi Ping Chin, Deanna Cao, Cassandra Guan, Charles Lai, Baayork Lee, Yue Ma, Marc Silver, Ann Sun, Wendy Tong, Jenny Tran, Doreen Wang, Sam Whitsitt NY Chinatown Senior Citizen Coalition Center archival material The National Archives Museum of Chinese in America Dialogpreis, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Media Arts Festival/EMAF Prix Videoformes Ville de Clermont-Ferrand, VideoFormes Best Experimental Video, Dallas VideoFest Selected Screenings Berlin International Film Festival Shorts Competition Norweigian Short Film Festival Parnu International Film Festival Sarajevo Film Festival Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival Kunstfilmtag, Duesseldorf International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown website 5 lessons at the Berlin Film Festival the Museum of Chinese in America Chinatown Film Project page top