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in the place where we left and arrived
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In the Place Where We Left and Arrived
(20'25'', single-channel video)
shown at:
Acts of Union, Hypha Studios, London, UK
SQIFF (BAFTA Qualifying 2024), Glasgow
Encounters, SPBH Space, Milan, Italy
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK
Fringe Of Colour Film Festival, Edinburgh
Ethnography film screening, Shanghai
Hackney Council Screening, London
LONDON/LONDRA, UNDONE Theatre, London
Shorts Screening: Rebuilding Lives in LDN, Video Consortium, London
Stories of Asian Queers, Brunei Gallery, London
Synopsis:
This film starts from a personal journey by gathering shared experiences, offering a look at the wider context of these important issues as the artist tries to question the definition of home as a Chinese migrant in London. Through voice over, intimate letter changes, archives & news, interviews, and the use of digital mappings, it depicts how queer identities intertwined with diaspora are bound up by rejection from the family and home country, the struggle of racism in the host country, and the confusion of cultural assimilation in the context of ethnocultural transformation. Finally, the work delves into the reality that for people who are marginalised, either culturally, geographically, or socially is always a state of exile.
People featured as contributors:
Dinghua
Denden
Elaine
Ruiji
Nao