Presented by Northeastern’s Global Asian Studies and Center for the Arts and the Brown Arts Institute

A two-part event at Northeastern University and Brown University with filmmaker and scholar Richard Fung, whose video work focuses on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS, and his own family history. 

Using a 20-year archive of video interviews, his latest film The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) explores the mysterious death of Harold Sonny Ladoo, the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada.

Leading up to the premiere of his latest film, The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) at Martinos Auditorium on October 11, the Brown Arts Institute presents a survey of queer Asian Canadian filmmaker Richard Fung’s experimental and documentary films made between 1990 and 2016. Showcasing a range of his personal interests and research investments, these films speak to the HIV/AIDS crisis, minoritarian queer histories, colonialism in Canada and the Caribbean, and the global Asian diaspora. They will screen continuously on each floor of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts in the communal “living room” spaces during the building’s open hours between October 7-11.

Featured films:

1. Fighting Chance (1990)
2. Dirty Laundry (1996)
3. Islands (2002)
4. Sea in the Blood(2000)
5. Rex vs. Singh(2008)
6. Re: Orientations(2016)

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