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Directed by Mackie Mallison • 2022 • United States
Through family conversations, home movies, and portraiture, IT SMELLS LIKE SPRINGTIME explores the complexity of Asian-American identity and experience in dialogue with the artist and jeweler Ada Chen and a riotous cadre of kids. Together, they grapple with their ties to their families’ homelands, the paradoxes of representation, and their sense of belonging.
Up Next in Three Short Films by Mackie Mallison
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Live From the Clouds
Directed by Mackie Mallison • 2023 • United States
LIVE FROM THE CLOUDS immerses the viewer in the intimate memories and imaginations of four women in the director's Japanese-American family, where everyday anxieties of shopping, paying the bills, and flying are ruptured by dreams of financial f...
