Welcome to Wonder Rooms, a collaborative archival and data collection project that looks at the fissures in traditional museum structures by turning MoMI’s long-running exhibit Behind the Screen into a site of testimony and witness.
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This is a new media artwork by Mala Kumar, commissioned by Museum of the Moving Image through generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts (Media Arts Program).
Sessue Hayakawa, c. 1930
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As you walk around the Portrait Gallery, you may notice a portrait of an elegant Japanese man with a smoldering gaze sitatued towards the top of the exhibit. This is Sessue Hayakawa, the only Asian actor to play the heartthrob in American silent pictures—although anti-miscegenation laws of the era meant that he never ended up with the girl in the end.
Tags: Film, Actor, Exclusion Act, Orientalism