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Sa-I-Gu, produced and directed by Elaine Kim, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, and Christine Choy, was filmed three months after the Los Angeles riots. In the aftermath of Sa-I-Gu, there were three prominent images of Korean-Americans in mainstream media and news: the security camera footage of store owner Soon Da Ju shooting fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins in the back of the head; a clip of a screaming, hysterical Korean-American shop owner, normally a woman, either pleading with looters to leave her store or lamenting the damage that they left behind; and male shop owners on the roofs of their businesses with weapons, projecting the image that they are more concerned about their property than the lives of other humans. When asked why Kim, Kim-Gibson, and Choy made the film, they all averred that its purpose was to give a "voice" to the voiceless victims--female Korean-American shopowners. |
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