I Am Another You (2017)

I Am Another You: Directed by Nanfu Wang. With Dylan, Nanfu Wang. Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society’s rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom – and its limits.

“I was taken by our female Chinese documentarian when she said she, u0026quot; felt safer sleeping on the streets of the U.S. than traveling in China … making a film about Chinese human rights.u0026quot; She films a homeless young white adult male to view his life on the streets of Florida. To some degree we see his alcohol abuse as well as some other hidden personal issues (some from an authoritarian Utah LDS background; some from how he uses people). Fortunately a warm weather state, a young female Asian photographer, and our subjectu0026#39;s use of his Northern European looks to garner attention makes their lifestyle u0026amp; filming sympathetically easier. The complexity of a personu0026#39;s state of mind makes analysis difficult, but from my experience his mindset is common amongst the homeless.”