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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-film-screening-
 the-undesirables-when-the-sea-sends-forth-a-forest/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Film Screening: The Undesirable
 s + When The Sea Sends Forth A Forest
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: The Undesirables + When The Sea Sends Forth A F
 orest\nThur 24 Aug / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery\n\n\n\nFREE\, REGISTER HER
 E\n\nAs part of Independents Biennial 2023\, Hester Yang will be showing T
 he Undesirables\, a developmental mixed-media film that looks into the hid
 den histories of the Chinese community in post-war Liverpool\, with a part
 icular focus on the gaps within archival materials and collective memory.\
 n\nThe event will share two short films\, one by Hester Yang\, and the 202
 0 film by Guangli Liu\, When the Sea sends forth a Forest. Both films addr
 ess how propaganda infects collective views on the identity of Chinese com
 munities.\n\nFollowing the screenings\, Hester Yang will be joined in conv
 ersation by Emily Beswick\, a PhD student whose research centres on family
  photographs and Chinese migration in Liverpool.\n\nDoors open 6pm\n\nThe 
 Undesirables\nDir Hester Yang\, 2022\, UK\, 19min\nThe term “undesirable
 ” refers to a Home Office fIle HO 213/926 titled “Forced repatriation 
 of Undesirable Chinese seamen”. It’s used to describe a communIty of C
 hinese migrant workers whose presence is seen as a problem and no longer w
 elcomed when the war ended. In the mid to late 1940s\, groups of Chinese s
 eamen disappeared from the streets of Liverpool and were never to be heard
  from again\, leaving behind hundreds of families who lived in the belief 
 that they had been abandoned. The truth of the event was shrouded in secre
 cy for over half a century and to this day\, many details still remain elu
 sive and incomplete.\n\nWorking closely with families affected by the forc
 ed repatriations and the subsequent fifty years of concealment\, the proje
 ct is rooted in their lived experience as well as ruptures in the wider co
 mmunity. Their disjointed first person accounts come together to form a co
 llective telling of shared experiences\, serving not only as testimony to 
 the historical injustice but also intergenerational trauma and lost identi
 ty.\n\nWhen the Sea sends forth a Forest 直到海里长出森林\nDir Gua
 ngli Liu\, 2020\, France\, 21min\n“It was 1974\, war had lasted for year
 s…” So begins the memory of an old Chinese man who lived through the r
 egime of the Khmer Rouge. Guangli Liu’s film is a collective imagination
  of that lost history based on propaganda videos and the disaster videos w
 hich spread throughout the world after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Narrat
 ed through the autobiographical voice\, a tender\, personal history unfurl
 s as a virtual reality of an imagined recent past.\n\nLinks:\nHester Yang:
  http://www.hesteryang.com\nEmily Beswick: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/c
 ommunication-and-media/postgraduate-research/pgr-students/emily-beswick/\n
 Guangli Liu: https://www.liuguangli.net/\n\n\n
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