Chinese Visual Festival 2016: 16 May 2016

The Chinese Visual Festival this year is going to feature a programme of shorts made by queer filmmakers from Mainland China and Hong Kong, followed by a Skype Q&A session with filmmakers Shu Kei, Tony Lin, and Dajing, hosted by Tony Rayns.

Cinema Comrade

Date: 16 May 2016 (Monday)

Time: 19:00 Screening; 21:45 Skype Q&A Session with Directors Shu Kei, Tony Lin, and Dajing, Hosted by Tony Rayns

Venue: Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand, King’s College London

Short Film Programme:

The Death of Lesbians (Dajing, 2015, 10 mins., documentary)

A City of Two Tales (Tony Lin, 2015, 30 mins., documentary)

I am Going to Make a Lesbian Porn  (Dajing, 2015, 29 mins., documentary)

Thin Dream Bay (Dajing, 2015, 30 mins., fiction)

Festival Schedule and Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cinema-comrade-cvf-2016-queer-session-tickets-24168970040

Chinese Visual Festival is an annual film and art festival supported by King’s College London. It features cutting-edge independent films from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other Chinese-speaking and Sinophone regions including Tibet, Mongolia, and Singapore.

Our selection of films this year addresses these intricate issues. Dajing’s I am Going to Make a Lesbian Porn and The Death of Lesbians use an experimental docudramatic format to explore female same-sex eroticism and its expression, or repression, in the PRC.

Shu Kei is one of Hong Kong’s most famous (and well established) independent filmmakers and Chair of School of Film and Television, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. His short film, Thin Dream Bay, is based on a short story written by Yi Wen, a Shanghai intellectual who migrated to Hong Kong and became one of the most influential screenwriters and directors of Hong Kong Mandarin cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.

Thin Dream Bay is about a Shanghai émigré in Hong Kong, an intellectual woman who experiences her sexual awakening and identity reconfiguration as someone who occupies the in-between-space between the local, the colonial, and the national. Finally, the documentary A City of Two Tales uses the perspective of two Hong Kong residents – one Hong Kong Chinese, one white Briton – to explore different experiences of aging and homosexuality in the city from the late twentieth century to the present day. In doing so the film maps out both a local and a transnational history connected, inevitably, to the story of British colonialism.

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