File No. 2304 & Artist Talk at Powell Street Festival
August 3, 2025
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Firehall Arts Centre
A screening of File No. 2304, a short film by Alison Kobayashi, followed by an in-depth presentation on her multidisciplinary project Electric Neon Clock. The program will include a walkthrough of her archival research process, as well as an excerpt from the performance currently in development. Electric Neon Clock draws from the Kobayashi family’s WWII-era Custodial File (No. 2304) to examine their forced dispossession and relocation from their home in Steveston, BC, to Manitoba sugar beet farms, and eventually to Toronto.
File No. 2304 installed at the Japanese Fishermen’s Benevolent Society Building at Steveston Museum and Post Office, 3811 Moncton Street, Richmond BC
On Display starting July 7, 2025
More Details Here
Community Screening of File 2304 at the Seniors Centre – Minoru Centre
for Active Living
7191 Granville Ave, Richmond
Multipurpose Room 1
August 1, 2025
2:30p
Register in-person (M-F 8:30am-
5:00pm), by phone(604-276-4300) or online at: tinyurl.com/ymxv5jex
Join award-winning artist A.S.M. Kobayashi for a special screen-
ing and conversation. Kobayashi will present her short documen-
tary File No. 2304, a poetic and powerful film based on the WWII
government file that documented the forced displacement and in-
ternment of her Japanese Canadian family.
Following the film, Kobayashi will introduce her new project
Electric Neon Clock, a multimedia performance and installation
that reimagines the contents of this custodial file. She is in-
viting Richmond-area seniors to join in dialogue to inform her
ongoing work and share their own family stories—especially those
with lived experience of displacement, internment, or life in
B.C. during and after the war.
This is a chance to connect, reflect, and contribute to an evolv-
ing artwork grounded in memory, resilience, and community. Even
if you’re not ready to share, you are warmly invited to attend,
listen, and enjoy the conversation.
File No. 2304 Screening in Cosmic Rays: You Don’t Know Me
UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood NYC
Sep 28, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Join the Cosmic Rays Film Festival for their 2025 Touring Program. Cosmic Rays celebrates work that extends the artistic possibilities of cinema and new media technologies; that explores the lyrical and poetic dimensions of media; that speaks with a personal voice; that challenges audience expectations of cinema form and content; that arises from a diversity of life experiences, identities, and communities; and that questions conventional models of production, exhibition, and distribution.
The program features films which are a visual examination of the roles of our bodies, the information that they generate, the identities that are adopted, and the records they leave behind. They are films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction.