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Dear Sis: Hair Cuts Season of the Boys Beijing Cotton-Fluffer Jiang Hu: Life on the Road Living Elsewhere Old Men I Am 17 Years Old in 1997 Magcojaodkal 98 Notes Before the Revolution An Autumn Fable For Maya How Do I Survive, My Friend! I Sing the Body Electric Kumar Talkies A Season Outside Jakarta Stock Shots: No. 7 Kamas Dolls Silk Tehran, the 25th Hour Trap After School Bicycles Annyong-Kimchi The New God Princess Plum P-udding The Children of North Korea Escaped to China Talbuk Sonyeondul Chungguk e Kada Making Sundried Red Peppers Gochoo Maligi The Three-Legged Crow Empty House Bin Chip Jaiyk Child of Mermaid Between Us Two... Beirut The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore Tension Title Deed from Moses Made In the Philippines ... To Fukuoka with Love Return to the Tribes Boys for Beauty Funny Competition Between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You I Love (080) The Red Leaf Legend Swimming on the Highway Two Guys Go Hunting Exotic 101 thirdworld The Hearts That Can't See the Sun Between Two Banks		Dear Sis: CANADA, U.S.A. / 1998 / English / Color / Video / 5 min Director, Photography, Producer: Ho Tam Narration: Alison Moritsugu Source: Video Pool Inc. #300-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H3 CANADA Phone:1-204-949-9134 / Fax:1-204-942-1555 E-mail:vpdist@videopool.mb.ca Ho Tam Born in Hong Kong and educated in Toronto, Canada. Worked in advertising firms and community psychiatric facilities before turning to art. He works in a diverse mix of disciplines including painting, video, print and public art and has exhibited in various cities across North America. His first video, The Yellow Pages, was commissioned by the public arts group Public Access for an installation/ projection at Union Station in Toronto in 1994-95. Tam currently lives in New York City and is a graduate of Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and a recent artist-in-residence at Charles Street Video, Toronto. He is working on his new tape, Matinee Idol. Dear Sis, I am sitting on the subway and all of a sudden I have this urge to write to you..." Here begins an apology letter written from one sister to another. The video is a simple and straightforward examination of the connection and distinction between one person and the next in the world we live in. The letter is an actual one, written by the director, which was never sent. Images are filmed on a subway train in New York City. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee