Random Acts of Legacy

Silas Fung a ChineseAmerican was a sign designer and painter for Sears in Chicago in the 1930s Born into a creative family he was also an avid painter musician churchgoer documentarian and father After he was married to Edythe and had children he decided to continue his passion for filming by documenting their lives Over the next two or three decades he amassed his familys whole life as they became part of the middle class of America Meanwhile in the early 21st century Ali Kazimi was bidding on an online auction for some 16mm nitrate film cans with Silas name on them After winning them and starting the process of cleaning them up he was contacted by a lady who was bidding on another lot of Silas films and wanted to know who had won the second lot From there Kazimi began to interview Silas daughter Irena Lam and other ChineseAmerican people who grew up at the same time as Irena as well as experts in SinoAmerican culture