About the movies

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My Grandmother Is an Egg: The film is about the fragility and resilience of the director's grandmother who faced oppression from unjust Confucian traditions in Asia. It aims to reflect upon women's oppression and struggle for freedom.

The director's grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. It is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law.

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Center of circle: Shishi, who is about to study abroad, hates living with her mother and dislikes her small home county, and longs to leave her family as soon as possible. But a sudden epidemic locks her in home with her mother, and in this forced isolation, Shishi slowly learns that family and home are something else.

 

Bonds of the matriarch: Luzinete lives on Recife’s periphery. As a widow from a very young age she has raised 12 children on her own. After even more challenges, such as the loss of her oldest son, the matriarch faces life with joy and good humour. Besides the archives of 1995 and 2005, new film footage from 2020 completes Bonds of the Matriarch. With the pandemic, Luzinete and her friend Ana disregard the risks.

 

TALCAHUANO: Saturday afternoon. The old family house seems to have stopped in time. Gathered there, María Luz, Noelia, and Gonzalo go through the mourning of their mother’s recent death, trying to get a hold of and let go of memories and material things. They fight, plan, and organize things, trying to put a value on feelings and facing the prejudice that always prevailed in that home.

 

Walking in these shoes: Walking In These Shoes" is a documentary commissioned by Viral Intervention, made by and for Poz (people living with HIV) BIPOC. It is a call for action to Casey House, the world’s only HIV-specialty hospital, to change its institutional policies and practices and to work collaboratively and meaningfully with community stakeholders to ascertain that Poz BIPOC can gain access to coordinated 24/7/365 care.

 

SHAMES: looking never hurt is a queer trauma comedy in five parts by leon clowes. Using three electro pop songs written as a teenager during the UK societal shaming of gay men during the AIDS crisis, leon weaves two spoken word adult reflections about the impact of this trauma on his sexuality. This DIY made-on-a-mobile-phone music film stretches from London backstreets to a Berlin cruising ground, journeying leon's flight from his family-of-origin to the arms of his queer kin.

 

Pounding of gaze: This is a traditional marketplace in Taiwan, and capturing these images reveals the so-called daily life of the city, which creates a dialogue with the emptiness and the feeling of the nothingness.

 

ok, you are gone.: On October 5, my mother sent a message telling me that my younger cousin had passed away. The only person in my family who wanted to live in the world of art and creativity as much as I did, had passed away.

The last thing I remember about our correspondence was that she sent me a message asking me questions about how to make a documentary. I never responded to this message.

 

Mother, May I (ask you): A video work directed towards my mother, asking her questions about my upbringing. Using a selection from my family home videos, I look closely at how my parents documented and raised us.

Mom, these are the things I wish I could ask you.