I curated a short film screening at Opening Program of the new SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA in Berlin-Wedding, will bring a conversation with director He Xiaopei after the screening.
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Monday 16.01.2023 20:00
Short Film Programme: Xiaopei’s Camera
After the screening talk with Popo Fan and He Xiaopei
Short Film Programme: Xiaopei’s Camera
The Lucky One
He Xiaopei, China 2011, 36 min.
Gay Cats
He Xiaopei, China 2010, 3 min.
Our Marriages - When Lesbians Marry Gay Men
He Xiaopei, China 2013, 42 min.
Happily Ever After
He Xiaopei, China 2019, 37 min.
“In 2021, we showed He Xiaopei’s Polyamorous Family as part of the series of Imaging Queer Bandung, and ever since I dreamt of bringing her and her films to SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. In this two-hour session you can witness the diversity of her filmmaking. The Lucky One is about an HIV-positive Chinese woman, who, confronted with dying, is revealing her hidden desires. Gay Cats, a two male cats’ love story went viral on YouTube with over 500,000 hits. Our Marriages - When Lesbians Marry Gay Men and its sequel Happily Ever After follow the life stories of four Chinese lesbians who seek contract marriages with gay men in North Eastern China. In Our Marriages you can see the director’s ironic observation about weddings and married life, while Happily Ever After shows the protagonists’ same sex partners, their gay husbands, their parents, as well as their parents in law. These formations invite the viewer to reflect upon mainstream ideas of what makes a family.” - Popo Fan
He Xiaopei is an indie film director and the executive director of Pink Space, a NGO focusing on films representing invisibilised desires and lives. After graduating from the university, she joined the Chinese Mountaineering Team, and eventually entered the State Council as an economist, conducting economic reforms research for 14 years. From the 1990s, she devoted herself to the feminist and lesbian movement in China, and took part in the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Later she went to the UK to study sexuality and cultural studies, graduating with a Ph.D.
Spacial Thanks to Beijing Queer Film Festival!