Chinese diasporic communities have carried TCM with them wherever they travelled. How do migrant memories of traditional Chinese medicine traverse time and space? Herb Dust In The Air portrays the affect and emotion in migrant memories of traditional Chinese medicine across time and space. This documentary film is produced as one of two parts of my M.A. in History thesis. The film corresponds to the thesis paper entitled, “Negotiating Chineseness in Diaspora: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Memory in Hong Kong and the Greater Toronto Area, 1960-2018.”
A project from a fourth-year undergraduate history seminar, “Making Documentary History” at Carleton University. I Did It All For You won the undergraduate Underhill Award for Best Documentary from Carleton University.
I Did It All For You made its Toronto Premier at the 2016 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival accompanied by fantastic, professional shorts in the Pulse Screening under the theme ‘Parental Control’.
Jenn Leah Ko 