We're back! Season 4 of Saturday School, we explore Troublemakers in Asian American Film History, inspired by film scholar's Eve Oishi's reference to "bad Asians," aka "badass Asians," in media. We're looking at a spectrum of "trouble," from renegade filmmakers that are combating the model minority myth to avante garde artists that are happily incompatible with anything considered mainstream. We begin with one of our community's OG troublemakers Yoko Ono and trace her influence to performance artists like Patty Chang. In other words, we talk about the high art of cutting someone's clothes off, butts, poop, taking a knife to your melons, eels in your shirt and making out with your parents.

This is going to be a weird season.

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