Shanghai Queer Screening + Q&A with Filmmakers
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June 18, 2021, 6PM (PDT)
June 19, 2021, 9AM (GMT+8)
In celebration of Pride Month, CCC presents “Shanghai Queer” screening and Q&A with director Xiangqi Chen 陳想起, Screenwriter Jiamin Hu 胡嘉敏, and producer Ann, Yu 安魚.
”Shanghai Queer“ is a first-of-its-kind documentary film about LGBTQ’s pursuit of equality and freedom in Shanghai, China. The documentary tells the collective memories of the development of Shanghai’s LGBTQ community over the past 15 years (2003-2018), presenting and focusing on the mission, growth, and thoughts of NGOs, activists, scholars, and artists in the gender equality movement under the change of urban spaces.
“Shanghai Queer: Screening + Q&A with Filmmakers” is a programming of “WOMEN我們: From Her to Here,” an exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco exploring local and universal experiences of queer belonging and agency. For More info: https://www.cccsf.us/post/women我們-from-her-to-here
慶祝舊金山市年度“驕傲月”活動，中華文化中心(CCC)舉辦上海酷兒紀錄片放映特別項目, 邀請導演陳想起、編劇胡嘉敏和製作人安魚共同參與電影討論。《上海酷兒》是第一部關於上海LGBTQ追求平等與自由的城市紀錄片。影片梳理了十五年（2003-2018）以來上海LGBTQ社群發展的集體回憶，呈現與聚焦城市空間流變之下，活動家、學者、藝術家在推動性別平等中的使命、成長和思考。
《上海酷兒》紀錄片展映 + 導演、製片人、編劇問答交流活動是“WOMEN我們: From Her to Here”的展覽項目, 此展覽集結展示的藝術創作根植於非二元性別對立的經驗之中: 一種意識、一個閾限空間和一股形成或被見證的力量之源。關於展覽更多信息，請訪問: https://www.cccsf.us/post/women我們-from-her-to-her
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Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a non-profit organization established in 1965. CCC elevates underserved communities and gives voice to equality through education and contemporary art. Rooted in San Francisco’s Chinatown, CCC is a loud and creative voice to uplift social and economical transformation. We provide a safe environment for artists who champion activism, resiliency, and healthy communities. In doing so, we shift dominant narratives, empower change, and reimagine our futures.
中華文化中心 (CCC) 是於1965年成立的非營利性機構。中華文化中心致力於提升未得到充分支持的社區地位，並通過教育與當代藝術為平等發聲。 根植於舊金山華埠，中華文化中心以響亮且具有創造力的發聲鼓舞社會性和經濟層面的變革。我們為倡導積極性，韌性和健康社區的藝術家提供安全的環境。在此過程中，我們轉變主流敘事，賦予變革以權力，並重新構想我們共同的未來。
About Filmmakers:
Xiangqi Chen, promoter and practitioner of LGBT community. Founder of a Chinese lesbian website in 2002, and founder of Shanghai NvAi in 2005, the first grass-root NGO dedicated to queer women in China. Organizer of performance art against sexual harassment “I can seduce, you can’t harass” in 2012. Founder of community spaces including Shanghai LGBT Cultural Center and Feminist Café from 2008 to 2012. Producer of The VaChina Monologues in 2013, and the documentary presents the development of 10 years’ history of theatre, “The Vagina Monologues“ in China.
陳想起，LGBT社群推動者和踐行者。從2002年建立中國拉拉網站到2005年創立上海第一個關注拉拉的LGBT草根機構“女愛”。 2008-2012年曾分別建立了上海LGBT文化中心和女性主義咖啡館。 2012年，“我可以騒你不能擾”事件發起人，一場引發中國全民討論的地鐵反性騷擾行為藝術。 2013年，擔任《來自陰道》製片人，這部紀錄片呈現了話劇《陰道獨白》在中國發展的十年曆史。
Jiamin Hu’s research interests are new/queer film. Filmmaker, film curator.
Her main artistic motivators are the construction and deconstruction of boundaries and space. She endeavors to create works of art with extreme hidden metaphors, in order to reveal issues of queer identity politics and gender performativity in public spaces, as well as to disenchant the gendered power mechanisms in the viewer's gaze. In her films, she seeks out some kind of momentary experience through the use of body, behavior, desire, or sex/gender ambiguity.
胡嘉敏的研究興趣為新/酷⼉電影。動態影像創作者、電影節策展人。
對於邊界與空間的編碼與解構成為她創作的驅動力。她試圖建造被極致化隱喻的影像作品，揭開置於公共場域之下酷⼉的身份政治與性別表演，同時祛魅藉由凝視所帶來的關於性別的權⼒機制。在移動影像、攝影當中， 通過對身體、⾏為、慾望、性/別的含混性使⽤，尋幽某種臨在的經驗圖示。
Ann Yu is producer, photographer, editor, and distributor of Shanghai Queer. After studying engineering at the University of Toronto, she became a freelancer with multiple careers.
安魚是《上海酷兒》製片人、攝影、剪輯、發行集一身。多倫多大學本科工程係出身，轉行斜杠青年自由職業。
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"WOMEN我們: From Her to Here” supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, San Francisco Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, #StartSmall, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Community Challenge Grants, San Francisco Arts Commission, Tongson Family, California Humanities, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Additional support by the California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Humanities CARES Relief, California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant, SF Arts and Artist Relief, and CCC Contemporaries.
Organizer Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Organizer of Shanghai Queer Screening + Q&A with Filmmakers
Chinese Culture Center, under the aegis of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, is a non-profit organization established in 1965. CCC elevates underserved communities, and gives voice to equality through education and contemporary art. Recently, CCC was selected as a finalist for the national Robert E. Gard award, which honors exceptional integration of arts in the community for “Chinatown Art in the Alleyways” project, and for the prestigious “Our Town” series to represent the City of San Francisco, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
CCC’s curatorial perspective integrates innovation, respect for tradition, a sense of the power of place, and a commitment to engagement with the local community through a process-driven lens. In the last decade, the organization has sought opportunities throughout the neighborhood for the presentation of art, from Portsmouth Square as the “living room of Chinatown,” to vacant storefronts, to Chinatown’s network of alleyways, through which the community’s lifeblood flows. Moreover, deep engagement with artists steeped in a social practice approach to art-making has been a core to its programming.
