An acclaimed environmental artist and first-time filmmaker, Kit-Yin Snyder uses double-exposed imagery to convey the duality of immigrant identity \u2014 a notion that she has been living out ever since she left China as a teenager. The result is Double Exposure, a short film that pairs Snyder\u2019s no-holds-barred candor and self-effacing humor with beautiful, haunting visuals drawn from the Chinese culture she left behind.<\/p>\n
Born in Guangzhou, China, Snyder immigrated to the United States in 1949, when she was 15 years old. In the ensuing decades, she graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, married an American man, raised a daughter, survived breast cancer, and became a visual artist, working with multimedia and nature and place to create environmental art installations. The woman she is now, Snyder says, is a far cry from the little Chinese girl she once was. In Double Exposure<\/i>, she returns to China for the first time since she left, setting out to track her evolution.<\/p>\n
Her film is a wry, pungent, and unforgettable rumination on the gaps between the Chinese and American views on women, marriage, age, beauty, family, food, and communication, and a personal quest to discover where in the gap she fits. As Snyder says, \u201cI think of the film as a way of looking at myself in the mirror, and seeing my reflection in a mask that continually fluctuates between East and West.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An artist and self-proclaimed \u201cold Chinese lady\u201d sets out to explore her own identity and prove it\u2019s never too late to take a risk by making her first film at the age of 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"topic":[],"class_list":["post-72","films","type-films","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n