Power of the Camera As a Tool
Meishi Street, a documentary film, is a component of the Da Zha Lan Project that Ou Ning hosted. He had […]
Unlimited Image: The Status of Chinese Independent Cinema since the Late 1990s
This article was completed at the end of 2003 for the “Cinema Manual”, a French magazine. After the completion, it […]
Documentaries Made by Filmmakers Born in the 1980s
The article was written in November 2007 and published on the 15th issue of Avart-Garde Today. 注：这篇文章写作的时间是2007年11月。它的结构相当简单：在开头的引言之后，是四个作品的评述。这四个作品都是纪录片，它们的作者都生于80年代，每个作品都呈现了不同的视角和叙述。我把这看作是一种新的创作现象。这种现象在当时是动人的，因为如果检视独立电影史，就会发现，这是这一代人，进入独立电影场域的开始，于是在那时候，他们和他们的作品，提供了一种对于独立电影生生不息的想象和期待。我想这种新生的力量值得被推介，哪怕是以一种简单的方式，这便是本文的成因。 它完成后发表于杂志书《今日先锋》第15辑。 本文关于近一两年来一些80后出生的作者制作的纪录影像。除了他们的年龄都是在25岁左右，他们的作品之间并没有多少一致性。本文也没有试图去寻找某种一致，只是用罗列的方式说明在纪录片的制作领域，有一种新生的力量在生长。也许代际划分的方法本身是生硬的，为了叙述的方便，它没有道理地排除了那些年龄相近，比如70年代末出生的作者。 为什么我们总是自觉不自觉地通过分代的方式来谈论一个事物？作为一种惯常的思路，它必然包含某些道理。探讨这些道理不是本文的任务，但也许它是跟中国社会及意识形态在近几十年来的激烈变迁联系在一起的。社会现实为每一个年代的人提供了不同的氛围和生活，并集体塑造了他们；而新一代，常常意味着他们会去打破既有的格局，来建立自己的身份。 […]
Freedom is Indivisible
(The article was originally published on the DVD booklet of Ju Anqi’s work published by the project Draft in May […]
Archiving Queer Feelings: Queer Representations in Cinema (2015)
This blog article was originally published in the University of Nottingham blog on 27 January 2015. The blog article has […]
Fear of A Queer China (2018)
This article was originally published in WAGIC: Women and Gender in China on 29 January 2018 as the introduction to […]
Freddie Mercury in China (2019)
This essay was first published in The Asia Dialogue on 14 May 2019. https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/05/14/freddie-mercury-in-china/ Freddie Mercury never went to China. […]
Homosexuality, Social Media Activism, and the Future of a Queer China
This essay was originally published in The Asia Dialogue on 24 April 2018. http://theasiadialogue.com/2018/04/27/homosexuality-social-media-activism-and-the-future-of-a-queer-china/ A new policy of banning homosexuality […]
Queer Filmmaking in the People’s Republic of China (2016)
This article was first published in The Asia Dialogue on 22 August 2016. http://theasiadialogue.com/2016/08/22/queer-filmmaking-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/ While the ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (http://www.shpride.com/films/?lang=en) […]
Queer Chinese Art and Performance in a Time of Viral Contagion: Review of Queering Now, Chinese Arts Now, London, 2020
This article was originally published as an editorial on the Cuntemporary website in April 2020: https://cuntemporary.org/queer-chinese-art-and-performance/ With the outbreak and […]