Valerie Soe

A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

A feature documentary about the Auntie Sewing Squad, a grassroots collective founded by performance artist Kristina Wong in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. As PPE shortages spread across the U.S., hundreds of volunteers—mostly BIPOC women, along with Uncles and non-binary members—turned their homes into sewing hubs producing cloth masks for vulnerable communities and essential workers. The group quickly grew from a few dozen activists into a nationwide network of more than 800 volunteers. Beyond providing masks, the collective used mutual aid to support historically marginalized communities and openly discuss feminism, anti-racism, allyship, and resistance to systemic inequality.

'Mixed Blood' takes a personal view of interracial relationships between Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans. Soe combines interviews with over 30 concerned individuals, text, and clips from scientific films and classic miscegenation dramas. This videotape explores the complexities of cross-cultural intimacy and whether such choices have public and political implications.

A look at the Taiwan Love Boat, where college-aged Taiwanese-Americans get closer to their history, their culture and each other.

Briefly explores the title phrase, taking a common misperception and turns it on its head. It hopefully provokes the viewer to confront his or her own prejudices and misconceptions about Asian Pacific Americans and the contradictions inherent in those beliefs.

Joel Hunt served as a combat engineer from 1998-2007, with multiple tours in Iraq. While there, he endured more than 15 roadside bombs, and experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Today, with the help of his dog, Barrett, he uses sports to push through the challenges of having a TBI.

Valerie Soe catalogues a visual compendium of orientalist and exoticizing representations of Asian women snatched from American film and television. Juxtaposed with text from mail-order bride catalogs, men's magazines, and popular literature, these clips from over 25 films and television programs explicate the orientalism and exoticism prevalent in mass media images of Asian women.