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Film Review: DIY Flick Gutterbug Nails Allston, Misses Social Mark

Gutterbug, the first film of Andrew Gibson, is an ode to the drug driven thrillers that the director studied from and adapted to represent Boston’s punk scene, in some of its most insidious ways.

Vitiligo: A Racial Trauma Thriller

Vitiligo is the groundwork to a conversation that has already happened many times but has yet to sink under the skin of mainstream America. The fantasy of the film is grounded in reality – taking place in a psychological limbo that explores the reality of 2014 America’s struggle to ignore the implosion of race relations as it ricochets around our collective consciousness, online and in person. The film hits you over the head with the struggle of existing within a white dominated society as a person of color, and the mental toll it takes to be the factchecker for people who would much rather dismiss those facts with personal experience or diminish the severity of race inequality to preserve ego and the status quo.

INTERVIEW: Creating Space with Japanese Breakfast

Looking at my pieces on this site, there’s a lot of local flavor but there is also an abandoned pet project I wrote entitled, ‘Creating Space.’ I wrote this as an introduction, an exploration of myself and an invitation to other Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) creators in Boston for discussion. It felt necessary; I was looking at my own identity in a critical, academic manner and trying to situate my race and ethnicity within the other facets of my identity. I was looking for my community during a time I was uncertain of the future of my own community, while knowing I wanted to have a hand in shaping it. This was before the explosion of Crazy Rich Asians opened the floodgates but well after a single concert changed my entire viewpoint on what was possible for my community – all of my communities.