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Permanence: Tattoo Portraits+
- Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing is now a full-blown cultural fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos, all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their bodies. PERMANENCE is the first book to combine photographic portraits with these individual stories, told in the subjects’ own words and handwriting. Foreword by world-renown tattooer Horitaka. Featuring Chuck Liddell, Margaret Cho, Tera Patrick, Scott Ian, Kat Von D, Slash, Paul Stanley, Evan Seinfeld and more.
Part Asian, 100% Hapa +
- A book of intimacy, affirmation, beauty, and powerful self-expression, Part Asian, 100% Hapa is the first book of its kind. Filled with over 100 Hapa portraits and their individual handwritten response to the question, "What are you?" it is the book Fulbeck always wished he had growing up. An introduction to the rest of the world and an affirmation for Hapas themselves, it presents the individuals and their growing community to the world, a reality that will no longer be ignored. It features a foreword by internationally known musician Sean Lennon and an afterword by race & ethnicity expert Paul Spickard.
Paper Bullets +
- In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Kip Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh background, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories. This sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic novel explores the Hapa identity of a young man, who like the author is shaped by the conflicting desires, stigmas, and codes of male behavior in American culture. By turns sensitive and forceful, passionate and callous, Paper Bullets confronts the politics of race, sex, and Asian American masculinity head-on and without apology, all the while chronicling a contemporary man's search for love and meaning.
"If you're looking for a hilarious, cocky, honest, and no-holds-barred account of lust, love and life from a unique Hapa male perspective, this is a keeper." - Alex Luu, YOLK Magazine
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Lilo & Me (10 mins, 2003) +
- Come along for the ride as Fulbeck documents his uncanny resemblance to Pocahontas, Aladdin, Mowgli, and other "ethnically ambiguous" animated characters in this hilarious expose on the muting of race in American popular media.
" ... a hilarious and thought-provoking study of ‘ethnically ambiguous’ animated characters that is part memoir, part family portrait, part pop-culture survey, and all Disney." — Independent Film Festival of Boston
Sex, Love, & Kung Fu (7 mins, 2000) +
- It's Mystery Science Theater — Hapa style. Join two crazed kung fu fanatics as they comically argue over Asian American masculinity, the homoerotic nature of martial arts movies, and the size of Dolph Lundgren's penis.
"Beavis and Butthead meet Bruce Lee in this sly and hilarious on the representation of Asian American men in the media." — Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Best Experimental Film, First Glance Film Festival
Finalist, USA Film Festival Short Film & Video Competition
Sweet or Spicy? (8 mins, 2000) +
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A 24-year-old Asian American has never been kissed in his life. Why not feature him on Loveline?
"With his usual combination of wit and worry, Fulbeck explores representations of Asian-American male sexuality in pop culture, while a trash TV show host tries to get a girl for a "never-been-kissed" Korean American." — New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center
Finalist (Experimental), Cinematexas Film Festival
Bemerkenswert, Festival Der Nationen (Austria)
3rd Place (Independent Experimental), Canadian International Annual Film & Video Festival
Best Short Film Nominee, 2000 Ammy Awards
L.A. Christmas (13 mins, ©1996) +
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A 9-year-old black belt, Buddhists butchering Christmas carols & a nephew reciting pi to 200 digits - the quintessential American Christmas captured in a delightfully playful home movie about home movies.
"Have you ever been at a party and realized your in-laws are vastly entertained by the things that embarrass you most about your family? Fulbeck’s video captures that contradictory feeling, simultaneously mocking and celebrating his family’s idiosyncracies." — Peter Feng, University of Delaware
Audience Festival Favorite, Malaysian Asian American Film Festival
Nine Fish (24 mins, ©1996) +
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Made a decade before the Terry Schiavo case entered the national consciousness, Fulbeck chronicles his Cantonese grandmother’s physical decline and its deep impact on his mother and family.
"Both funny and sobering, themes of death and life swim in and out of these stories – each told with the soul and clarity of a child grown up." — Seattle Asian American Film Festival
"Rendered almost unwatchable by babbling voice-over which reeks of theatrical self-indulgence." — Kevin Sun, Asian Week
Artistic Director’s Award of Merit, Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival
Some Questions for 28 Kisses (8 mins, ©1994) +
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An exploration of Asian female/White male pairings in Hollywood movies and their real and imagined effects on gender politics and Asian American masculinity.
"This is a terrific, intense, multimedia experience — deconstructing Hollywood’s images of Asian Americans – it ought to be seen by Asian American women." — Hawaii International Film Festival
- Special Juror’s Award, USA Film Festival
- Silver Carp, Seattle Asian American Film Festival
- Finalist, New York Expo of Short Film
Asian Studs Nightmare (6 mins, ©1994) +
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A wacky spoof on the racial politics operating behind a hit television dating show.
"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 racists designs of the show’s ‘Gestapo’ producers." — Seattle Asian American Film Festival
- Best Narrative Short, Los Angeles Asian Pacific American International Film Festival
Banana Split (32 mins, ©1991) +
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Still the original — the landmark video on being Hapa.
"A classic of the video essay genre." — Bob Nakamura, Filmmaker
- First Place, Red River International Film Festival
- Outstanding Student Experimental Award, Brooklyn Arts Council
- Best Local Filmmaker, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Game of Death (6 mins, ©1991) +
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The legendary Bruce Lee is examined in the various roles he posthumously came to represent – from Fulbeck’s own boyhood idol to an Asian American male icon.
"A hilarious look at the beautification of Bruce Lee — ‘Game’ shows how Asian America’s desperation for a hero has led into Lee’s devolution into an inhuman, and ultimately replaceable, chopsocky icon." — Jeff Yang, The Village Voice