Film

Explore the innovative works of artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who utilizes gunpowder and pyrotechnics to create dynamic drawings, paintings, and explosion events. This exhibition delves into the nature and properties of gunpowder, chronicling its use in Cai’s artistic process. Accompanying programs include videos on fireworks creation, interactive displays, and film screenings.

As part of the forced incarceration of over 125,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, filmmaker Emiko Omori explores her family’s experience at the Poston American concentration camp. Fifty years later, she and other former inmates reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps, offering a poetic and illuminating view of a troubling chapter in American history.

Explore the innovative works of artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who utilizes gunpowder and pyrotechnics to create dynamic drawings, paintings, and explosion events. This exhibition delves into the nature and properties of gunpowder, chronicling its use in Cai’s artistic process. Accompanying programs include videos on fireworks creation, interactive displays, and film screenings.

As part of the forced incarceration of over 125,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, filmmaker Emiko Omori explores her family’s experience at the Poston American concentration camp. Fifty years later, she and other former inmates reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps, offering a poetic and illuminating view of a troubling chapter in American history.

As part of the forced incarceration of over 125,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, filmmaker Emiko Omori explores her family’s experience at the Poston American concentration camp. Fifty years later, she and other former inmates reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps, offering a poetic and illuminating view of a troubling chapter in American history.