Center for Asian American Media

Pushing the genre of post-colonial personal narratives, Foronda deploys Hollywood movie archetypes to tell a post-punk version of “the search for Filipino identity.” This satire plays out internalized cultural questions of diaspora by superimposing Filipinos and Philippine history onto John Wayne, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello roles. It teases our desire to laugh at ourselves, while resurrecting issues and problems endemic to the import/export “trade” of cultures, media and human services.

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