Introduction to the InMediaRes theme week "(Im)Possible Asias"

1. (Im)Possible Asias
Sebnem Baran, Jinhee Park, Anirban Baishya, Darshana S. Mini

2. Sebnem Baran looks at the
connection between Europe and
Asia through Fatih Akin’s
Crossing the Bridge.

3. The Bridge of Bosphorus in Istanbul that connects Asia with Europe

4. Refugee life vests at the Aegean Coast. The ongoing refugee crisis goes
counter to the syncretic imagination symbolized by the bridge.

5. Jinhee Park’s post focuses on
the film My Father’s Emails (Dir.
Hong Jae-hee, 2012) and
explores the filmmaker’s
nostalgic desire of going back
home to North Korea is
expressed through the creation
of an alternative dreamscape in
the film.

8. Anirban Baishya’s post
focuses on the the
documentary The Legend of
Fat Mama that explores the
memory and trauma of
Chinese-Indians who were
persecuted and expelled from
India during the Indo-China
border crisis.

10. Chinese-Indians celebrate the Chinese New Year in the city of Kolkata in
India.

11. Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s post focuses on the film Gaddama (Dir Kamal,
2011) to focus on the experience of migrant workers in the Middle-East.

12. Opening scene of the film showing domestic workers waiting for their
sponsors at the airport in Saudi Arabia.

13. A scene from the film that illustrates the precarious existence of migrant
workers and the risk of dying in anonymity.