James T. Hong: APAture 2005 Featured Artist in Film (Photo Courtesy of the artist)

James T. Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but he never has and never will consider it his home. Because of his unfortunate birthplace, he is and will forever be an ABC (American Born Chinese). Going to school within the ethnic and spiritual prison that is called the Midwest and surrounded by nativist whites, Hong experienced the failings of the American melting pot firsthand -- with fists, with words, and with blood. Some of his films have screened throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe, and Asia, but most have not.

Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, won a Golden Gate Award from the 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival, and played at various ghettoized Asian-American film festivals. Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms (Sensitive Version) competed for an Asian Vision award at the 2004 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and The Form of the Good as a 16mm print recently competed for a Golden Gate Award at the 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival, and as a video will screen at the 2005 New York Video Festival.