Inauguration

2020 / 13:32 / Super 8mm & HD

English/ United States, Cuba / Colour and B&W

What does it mean to look back on a failed assassination? Why does one decide to forget a radical past? Inauguration looks at the fragmented history of the Young China Association.

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The underground revolutionary group, Young China Association, was established in 1905 by the Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States to promote the Chinese Revolution.

Through a series of anachronistic travels and narratives between Texas, California, and Havana, the film offers an assemblage of two disparate events at the margins of Chinese revolutionary history...