Love and Death in Montmartre 蒙馬特之愛與死 (2019): Screening and panel discussion
Friday May 5, 6:00 pm – 9:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
RSVP required
Acclaimed filmmaker Evans Chan’s evocative documentary is a tribute to the life, work, love and death of Qiu Miaojin 邱妙津, the iconic, openly lesbian young writer and artist from Taiwan who took her own life in Paris in 1995. Weaving performance, interviews (including with her teacher Hélène Cixous and American poet Eileen Myles), and footage of Qiu’s short films, Chan’s deeply researched, and beautifully composed film places the self-exiled pioneer queer writer’s legacy in relation to Sinophone women literature as well as Taiwan’s gay rights movement that eventually led to the same-sex marriage law, the first in Asia, in Taiwan in 2019.
The post-screening panel features Evans Chan and Edwin Frank, joined remotely by Ari Larissa Heinrich and Shi-yan Chao.
Organizer and moderator: Zhen Zhang (director of the Asian Film and Media Initiative).
Free and open to the public.
