'''Nguyen Tan Hoang''' (born c. [[1970]]) is a [[gay]] [[Vietnamese American]] [[Film director|filmmaker]], [[Artist|artist]], [[Author|author]], and [[AIDS]] [[Activism|Activist]]. Nguyen's own research interests include representations of Asian American masculinity in gay male pornography and Hollywood and international cinemas.
Nguyen Tan Hoang is both an academic and an experimental film-maker whose creative work has been featured in [[Film festival|festivals]] in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, and Europe. Nguyen's artistic agenda is a political one: to create a popular culture for Gay [[Asian American|Asian Americans]]. Nguyen often uses appropriated film footage, combining pastiche, kitsch film and music references to speak of his [[Queer|queer]] positionality.
Nguyen Tan Hoang left [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]], [[Vietnam]], with his family in [[1979]], when he was nine years old. After spending a year and half in [[Refugee camp|refugee camps]] in [[Malaysia]], the family arrived in the United States. Hoang grew up in [[San Jose, California]], and received his B.A. in art and art history and a M.F.A. in studio art, and [[As of 2002|as of 2002]] was a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] candidate (Film Studies Program, [[Rhetoric]]), at [[University of California, Berkeley]].
Hoang is an artist who works in video and photography to examine the intersections between popular cultural representation of the Asian male body and the formation of an alternative, queer Asian popular culture. His works have been screened at gay and lesbian and Asian American film festivals and displayed at numerous nonprofit exhibition sites.
==Partial Filmography==
* ''I Know Karate'' (2002)
* ''K.I.P.'' (2001)
: Experimental film featuring images of the filmmaker inserted into classic 70's gay porn footage of Kip Noll
* ''Pirated!'' (2001)
: Trauma and erotica conflate in the revisionist memories of a Vietnamese filmmaker who met pirates on the Pacific as a young refugee
* ''Forever Bottom'' (1999)
: Defiantly (and hilariously) celebrates bottomhood while simultaneously challenging dominant myths about gay Asian sexuality
* ''Maybe Never, But I'm Counting the Days'' (1996)
: This innovative short uses pop music to interrogate queer life and love in contemporary society; skillfully examines anxieties, restrictions, and prohibitions in gay life in the age of AIDS.
* ''Love letters 1 & 2 (For Julian Love, Hoang)'' (1996)
* ''Forever Linda'' (1996)
: Examination of voyeurism by focusing on the in/visibility of sexual identity among young Asian American Gays
* ''7 steps to sticky heaven'' (1995)
: A documentary of interviews with a group of young gay Asian men in San Francisco on a range of subjects; a musing on the politicization process of becoming "sticky rice", a gay Asian male (GAM) who dates other GAM’s
* ''Forever Jimmy!'' (1995)
: As a reaction to the lack of sexy Asian men in U.S. media, the film inserts Asian male pop stars into films in a barrage of seductive, fast edits and pornographic intertitles.
* ''I Got This Way From Eating Rice: Gay Asian Documentary & the Re-Education of Desire''
* ''Snowed In''
: A film on interracial desire.
==References==
* {{cite book|author=Williams, Linda|year=2004|title=Porn Studies|publisher=Duke University Press|id=ISBN 0822333120}}
** Nguyen Tan Hoang, contributor: ''"The Resurrection of [[Brandon Lee (porn star)|Brandon Lee]]: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star''
:: By comparing porn star Brandon Lee to martial arts actor [[Bruce Lee]] (as well as his son [[Brandon Lee]], who died during the filming of [[The Crow]] and from whom the porn star took his name) Hoang examines recent changes in the images of Asian men in porn and cinema generally. Hoang compares Bruce Lee's tasting his own blood in Enter the Dragon with Brandon Lee tasting his own cum in Asian Persuasion 2 and understands both images as a series of complicated messages about the acceptance and voiding of Asian male identity.
==External link==
* {{imdb name|id=1523481|name=Ngyen Tan Hoang}}
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[[Category:Vietnamese Americans]]
[[Category:Vietnamese people]]
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