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we got moves you ain't even heard of (part one)
1999, 11 minutes
Media type
Country of origin

United States of America

Rating

US:R

Filming locations

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Technical specs

B/W

other celluloid film format

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
terminology, sex
Images
The person has light skin with a rolled up short sleeve white t-shirt with a black t-shirt underneath. They have short black hair and a big dark spot on their left eye expanding to their cheek bone. The background is white with different posters on the wall.
Description

We Got Moves You Ain’t Even Heard Of (Part One) by Clover Paek, comments humorously on sexual identity, butch/femme roles, and Hollywood’s Orientalism by re-casting the filmmaker as the lead in The Karate Kid and its sequels of the 1980s, and, alternately, by re-imagining teen idol Ralph Macchio as a lesbian icon. The 1999 short video substitutes Paek’s sexually ambiguous body for that of the Karate Kid (Ralph Macchio) to underscore both the flexibility and mutability of his image as a sexual icon for straight and queer viewers and to expose the ways in which the appeal of the Karate Kid movies rests upon the converging spectacles of homoerotic violence and masked orientalism.

Oishi, Eve. “Bad Asians, the Sequel: Continuing Trends in Queer API Film and Video.” MFJ. Accessed May 25, 2023.http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ41/oishipage.html..

Cast & Crew
Crew
Screenings

1999-10-30 10:30 PM

San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

Program 5

Archive Items
VHS tape of we got moves you ain't even heard of ((part one))
VHS2006-26
GLBT Historical Society Archives