Laying the Last Track

Artist

Shelley Cheung

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A feature documentary film about the story of the Chinese railroad workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, as told by their descendants and Asian American activists, and informed by the filmmaker’s friendship with the late Corky Lee as he set out west to restage a 1969 photograph that commemorated the completion of the railroad—this time centering the contributions of the Chinese railroad workers in an act of “photographic justice.”

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