Notions of role-play, performance, and cinematic identity run through the video works of Wong and Collins, who both recast forms of melodrama across cultures. With a penchant for linguistic play, Singapore-born performance artist Wong restages moments in film history, adapting scenes from classic European art films and Hollywood weepies in order to skewer cinematic representations of race, gender, and sexuality. In his 2008 film soy mi madre, Collins takes the viewer behind the scenes of the production of a telenovela, transforming the Latin American TV genre into a self-conscious and multilayered potboiler of betrayal and intrigue starring actors and non-actors alike. Program length: 90 minutes.
