CC版的两部纪录片合辑,拍于1968年的叫Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One,第二部是2005年完成的,叫Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2。第一部拍的是一群学生在纽约中央公园参加一个“虚构”的电影试镜。第二部,拍的就是这对冤家35年后在中央公园的重聚。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.