Dumplings / 餃子

Short Film, 2020, 7:28min
Written and Directed by Kimberly Ho
Filmed and Edited by Christian Yves Jones

Seemingly quotidian, there is more than meets the eye. Dumpling skin without the filing is like a coin with only one side. It is two rivers continuously meeting. It is everything and it is nothing. It is that thought on the tip of your tongue, forever receding from site, never to be found. Dumpling / 餃子 is a visual mediation on how we hold two and distinct things in tandem, to fully inhabit two different, sometimes seemingly opposite spaces. Is this the quintessential Asian diasporic experience? Is duality the difficult gift we are offered?

Dumplings / 餃子 screened in the 2020 Festival of Recorded Movement in Vancouver and received honorable mention in the ‘Most Moving Film’ category.