ASIAN STUDS NIGHTMARE attacks the racial politics operating behind the hit television dating show "STUDS". Fulbeck narrates at breakneck speed, hilariously recalling semi-fictional nightmares of interracial dating and Asian male identity. Told over multi-layered visuals of the actual "STUDS" show and Asian male media stereotypes, Asian Studs Nightmare reveals pervasive racial hierarchies and taboos depicted in mass media and questions their relation to interracial dating patterns and minority status in the United States.

Best Narrative Short: 1995 Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival

"Following the genre of his previous works, 'Banana Split' and '28 Kisses,' Fulbeck examines interracial dating with humorous rhetoric ... the video is replete with hidden meanings, buried under ordinary text and television imagery."
- Nina Chen, Asian Week

"Keep your ears pricked up and your eyes glued to the screen; there's a lot going on here. Fulbeck rehashes a dozen too-Oriental-for-you images and delivers a bullet-speed narrative that exposes the racist designs of the dating game's 'Gestapo' producers."
- Soyon Im, Seattle Asian American Film Festival

Running Time: 6:00 mins
Black & White, NTSC
Written, Produced & Directed by Kip Fulbeck
Sound Design: Kevin Kelly
Video Engineering: Gino Cheng
©1994 Seaweed Productions

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