Three Short Films by Mackie Mallison

As ecstatically inventive as they are warmly heartfelt, these deeply personal shorts by rising director Mackie Mallison are multilayered explorations of Asian American identity (including his own Japanese American heritage), family, displacement, and memory. Combining the dreamy textures and intimate, home-movie quality of 16 mm with exuberant bursts of colorful animation, kinetic editing, and surreal superimpositions, Mallison’s collage-like films open up a poignant dialogue across cultures and generations in a moving search for the meaning of home.