Unfinished : exploring the transgender self | Siufung
Projections
Vendredi 18 octobre 2013 18H15 / Salle 300
Hong Kong | 2013 | 7′
Documentaire | Couleur
Avant-première française et mondiale
Version originale sous-titrée et en quoi (Original version subtitled ?) “尚未完結”
Réalisation: Siufung
Interprétation: Siufung
Scénario : Siufung
Image : Siufung, Candy Pok
Musique : Untitled 8 (sigur Ros)
Production: Siufung
Distribution : lawwanling@gmail.com
Synopsis
The 6-minute experimental film aims to construct transgender subjectivity through the use of visual and written language. The film borrows the lyrics from the song The Origin of Love in the transgender film Hedwig and The Angry Inch (2001), and retells the origin of human as “an organism with two sets of arms and legs” and “two faces peering out of one giant head”. Here, transgenderism is made possible based on this new concept of originated human. I argue that the searching for the lost half in Hedwig resembles the searching of the lost self in transgender people. My gender poem “Unfinished” thus attempts to formulate transgender subjectivity through retelling his gender struggle. In the film, I construct a parallel narrative by reciting the poetry lines from my own poem, as well as a black-and-white documentation of myself. The film is depicted in silent motion. The only narration in the film would be the recitation of my poem. The title of the film in Chinese literally means, “Not yet finished”. The ending of the film is yet the beginning of another individual story. I hope that, by making the first experimental film on local transgender, it would provoke other transgender individuals to create a language for their own stories.
