Invisible Boy

A portrait of an illegal immigrant Chinese child through the imaginary monsters that incarnate his fears and anxieties A fiction tacked onto a reality The reality of the illegal aliens in Manhattans Chinatown People who are called invisible This portrait gives an image to someone who doesnt have one and at the same time a real person gains the social identity hes missing by becoming a fictional character High definition images make sensible impressions of a city as we cross over to the imaginary Fantasy and social realism fiction and documentary overlap Like Superman or Spiderman Invisible Boy is a contemporary superhero produced by the city today His monsters appear slowly at the beginning as scratches on the film stock someplace in between the diegesis and the actual world They are the boys superpowers This is a tale in which a boys paranoia produces a topographic vision of a city