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The House of Ong  A documentary about the Ong family in Phoenix (who settled in the area in the late 1800s) that examines the myth of the American dream and its true accessibility to non-European immigrants.  Selected Works Film The House of Ong (2002)
Beyond Asiaphilia (1997) Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape (1992) Black Sheep (1990) Scratch Video (1987) All Orientals Look the Same (1986) Installation La Vida Povera de San Pancho (1998)
Binge (1998) Walking the Mountain (1994) Mixed Blood (1992) Heart of the City (1992) Accomplishments Haas Foundation Creative Work Fund Grant, 1999
Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1997 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, 1995 Flintridge Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, 1995 Best Foreign Video, Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani, Torino, Italy, 1987 Education 1987 MFA, Video and Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1985 BA, Art, University of California, Los Angeles Web Site News April, May, June 2008 Valerie Soe’s
Art/Film/Revolution
was shown in the Los
Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Originally commissioned to commemorate the Media Arts Fellowships 20th
Anniversary, Soe’s experiemental short offers a visual
meditation
on the motion picture camera’s role as an
activist’s weapon. 2003 Year-End Update Valerie Soe and Glenda Egger's video installation Where Have All the Flowers Gone was part of the dedication ceremony to the Janice Sakamoto Gallery Space and the James T. Yee Production Center at NAATA in San Francisco in December. Late Fall 2003 Valerie Soe and Glenda Egger's video installation Where Have All the Flowers Gone was part of the dedication ceremony to the Janice Sakamoto Gallery Space and the James T. Yee Production Center at NAATA in San Francisco in December. Interview Have you ever transitioned to another medium or genre? How did it affect your original discipline? I started out long ago as a black & white photographer, but quickly switched to video once I learned the technology. Darkroom chemistry was way too toxic, though I liked printing, but video is so much more immediate and intuitive that I took to it right away. Photography helped me learn to see and understand light and shadow and composition but the moving image is much richer and more chaotic so I prefer it. |
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