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Then, in 1988, she attended a campus screening of Mira Nair ’79’s 1988 film Salaam, Bombay. As Mallozzi watched a Harvard graduate receive the honor of introducing her own film on campus, she recalls thinking “‘Wow, that’s really cool! You can make films at Harvard!’” Mallozzi ended up joint-concentrating in English and VES, and now, close to 17 years later, film dominates her life...
Mallozzi’s tumultuous struggle to resolve ethno-cultural identity was less easily resolved, but she used her personal quest for self-understanding as the fuel for her first major documentary, 1999’s critically-acclaimed Once Removed. The film followed Mallozzi as she made her first journey to Communist China in order to learn about her family’s experiences during the Cultural Revolution...
...young adults raised both in turn-of-the-millennium suburbia and in the shadow of their parents’ memories of genocide, primarily by letting its subjects tell their own story. A significant portion of the film is shot by the kids themselves with hand-held cameras. When Mallozzi is behind the camera, her three-year effort reflects a painstaking and nonjudgmental commitment to capture minute details and make sure we don’t turn the characters into immigrant saints or ethnic stereotypes...
...exemplary moment, one of the teens blandly mentions her parents’ lives under the “Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, and all that” in the same tone she uses to describe getting her car detailed. In such a scene, Mallozzi doesn’t need flashy cinematic technique. She forces the audience to ask itself gut-wrenching questions about cultural memory and assimilation, by presenting the girl’s words without pretension or prejudice. Over three grueling years of filming, Mallozzi was able to capture a wealth of genuinely thought-provoking moments like this...
...film has been making the festival rounds, but perhaps its greatest achievement will be in the educational and social service sectors. According to Mallozzi, Lowell High School has asked her to create a study guide to accompany the film, so that the school can show it as a part of the regular curriculum. In addition, the school has begun to ask its teachers to watch the movie in order to get a better sense of their kids’ everyday lives...