David Chan

David Chan is from Daly City, CA. He recently graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in Film and Media Studies, along with a double minor in English Literature and Asian Studies. His academic interests revolve around theories of globalization, diaspora, visuality, queerness, and race and ethnicity.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 4June 29, 2019<June 20, 2019

An Archive of Shirkers (2018): Collaging Different Theories of the Archive

David Chan brings several theories of the archive to bear on the recent documentary Shirkers, asking how the film's openness as a text and mission of collecting a lost film relate to the specificities of place and embodied difference that gave rise to the project.