A new video essay by Astria Suparak, part of an art exhibition on A.I. at Oxy Arts, interrogates why science fiction films often depend on Asian cultures without centering them.
, exists as a database of science-fiction films that incorporate Asian culture as a shorthand to telegraph futurism while failing to develop real storylines and characters for Asian actors within these universes.
“I started off as just another viewer of sci-fi and escapist fantasy just to decompress after work, but it’s impossible, at least for me, to not notice how Asian cultures are used in this genre,” Suparak, who grew up in Los Angeles, tells. “When I knew I wanted to work on this project I started by watching the films that I had access to and cataloging the obvious visual markers of Asian-ness that I recognized on first watch.
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