Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street | Film Screening

“Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street” filmed three Cantonese opera lovers living in New York. Shirley, born in Cantonese opera families who immigrated from mainland China; Rosa, Hong Kong immigrant who came to New York since childhood; Wenxiang, Chinese refugee who immigrated to the United States from Cuba. They found their habitat in Cantonese opera performances.

In “Tales of Chinatown”(2019) and “Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street”(2022), Luka Yuanyuan Yang traces the past and now of Cantonese opera fin the American culture and how it has had a cross-generational impact on diaspora Chinese.

Film by Luka Yuanyuan Yang
Presented by Flowers Gallery
Duration 16 minutes and 28 seconds
2022