“I am a form
expressing itself in the earth's crust
wringing itself out” - Een Lichaam Dragen, Hannah Chris Lomans
Queer has had a long history of being a word that signals otherness, strangeness, that can carry the tune of disdain, yet also a unifying word that is possessed by its people. But who are those people, and how did we get to come together? In a quest to think about what does a queer way of being feel, sound, or taste like, this summer Asian Movie Night has prepared a diverse and complex program that navitages queer life, embodiment, and desire.
Smooth Pink Fresh & Crude is made up of a feature film screening of an avant garde classic from late 60s Japan, as well as a selection of short films from varied parts of the world that discuss different aspects of queerness, whether in the abstract or the tangible.
Smooth Pink Fresh & Crude
will be screened at
FOCUS Arnhem (26.06),KINO Rotterdam (27.06) ,Cavia Amsterdam (29.06) and De Kurk Queer Collective in Arnhem (11.07).
Join us for the aftertalk with Jinxiao Zhou in Cavia!
PROGRAM of FOCUS Arnhem
Wednesday 26.06.2024
19:00 - 19:05 Opening (5’)
19:05 - 20:50 Screening of Funeral Parade of Roses (105’)
20:50 End
TICKETS
€12.00 (Student €5.00)
Cineville card free
Focus
PROGRAM of KINO Rotterdam
Thursday 27.06.2024
21:00 - 21:05 Opening (5’)
21:05 - 22:50 Screening of Funeral Parade of Roses (105’)
22:50 End
TICKETS
€13.20 (CJP/Student €10.00)
Cineville card free
KINO
PROGRAM of CAVIA Amsterdam
Saturday 29.06.2024
19:05 - 19:55 Screening of short films (50’)
20:00 - 20:30 Aftertalk with Jinxiao Zhou
20:30 - End
TICKETS
€5,- / Cineville card free
Screenings are ticketed seperatelly.
It’s not possible to make reservations. Tickets can be bought at the bar half an hour before the film starts.
CAVIA
PROGRAM of De Kurk Arnhem
Thursday 11.07.2024
18:30 - 19:00 Doors open
19:00 - 20:00 Food
20:00 - 20:50 Screening of short films
21:00 End
Entrance is free
De Kurk
ABOUT![]()
Jinxiao Zhou is a visual artist based in Utrecht and
an educator dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. His diverse artistic practice, which includes painting writing, performance, and participatory installation, focuses on creatin contemplative spaces where individuals can connect with themselves an others. Jinxiao's pedagogical practice aims to bridge the gap between art educators from the East and the West.
Curator Kleopatra Vorria
Supported by Gemeenten Arnhem,
Het Cultuur Fond.
Funeral Parade of Roses
Dir. Toshio Matsumoto / 1969 / JP / 105’ / Japanese w/ EN subs
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A queer adaptation of Oedipus Rex following the colorful lives of those involved in late 60’s Tokyo’s underbelly. The journey is disturbing and intoxicating.
Toshio Matsumoto (1932 – 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental movies, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Matsumoto published many books of photography and art and was a professor and dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. He was also the President of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences.
Beast
Dir. Aileen Ye / 2022 / NL / 6’ / English
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A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflecting the tension between traditional and modern identities in a dreamscape nightmare
Aileen Ye (she/her) is an award-winning Irish-Chinese filmmaker from Dublin. Currently, she is based between London and Amsterdam. Her works utilise various mediums with a focus on subcultures and diasporic narratives. She holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Sociology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, focused on decolonising the aesthetics of moving-imagery and autoethnographic cinema. Her work has been shown internationally including the BFI, Barbican Centre, NOWNESS Asia, LUX, and more. Currently, she is an artist member of Filmwerkplaats based in Rotterdam
Dancing Colors
Dir. M. Reza Fahriyansyah / 2022 / ID / 15’ / Indonesian w/ EN subs
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Feeling that their highly sensitive son Dika is abnormal, his parents decide to undertake a ritual. They call on an imam to chase away a jinn, but is the resulting dance a successful ritual – or just a performance?
Reza
Fahriyansyahis a Indonesian film director who was born in Jakarta in July 1993. He graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Over the past years, Reza consistently spotlights social clas issues through his short films. As a filmmaker, the film has been accompanying him to understand the meaning of life, therefore most of his past films are based on his personal life stories.
Dismantle Me
Dir. Max Disgrace / 2023 / UK / 13’ / English
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A comical proposition turns into an arousing powerplay when a smoldering-hot trans woman helps a heartbroken trans man tidy his messy bedroom.
Max Disgrace is a London based, award-winning film director, trans man of Chinese descent and proud pervert. Max’s work focuses on queer desire and sexual intimacies, inhabiting realms of mischievousness, playfulness, resistance, sensuality, leather and pleasure. An alum of Berlinale Talents 2020 and BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 20/21, his work has screened at the BFI, Tate Modern, the Barbican and queer & porn film festivals internationally.
Futon
Dir. Yoriko Mizushiri / 2012/ JP / 6’ / English
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Wrapped in the futon… Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained…Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders, seeking for these senses…
Yoriko Mizushiri is a freelance film director and graduate of Joshibi University of Art and Design. Among her shorter works, Mizushiri directed the TV series Lena Lena, an adaptation of picture book "The Adventures of Lena Lena" by Dutch writer Harriët van Reek
A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflecting the tension between traditional and modern identities in a dreamscape nightmare
Wrapped in the futon… Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained…Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders, seeking for these senses…