A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers
Focus on Taiwan
Winner of the 51st Student Academy Awards®, Alternative/Experimental Category
Followed by Q&A
12 min | Experimental | 2023 | Taiwan | Mandarin (No dialogue) | English Subs
Screened after short films: Ghost of the Dark Path and Compound Eyes of Tropical
Synopsis:
An experimental narrative film about the sexual awakening of Ming, a 15-year-old girl, at an adult film screening in 1980’s Taiwan. Ming playfully explores her exhibitionist fantasies along with Sie'r, the boy next door. Her off-stage sexual maturation merges with the spectacular reveries onscreen. This film is my homage to Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Chia-Yun Yang's The Lady Avengers (1981).
Schedule
Nov 15, 2024 @ 03:30 PM
Director
Birdy Hung Wei-ting
Birdy Wei-Ting Hung holds an M.F.A. degree at San Francisco University’s School of Cinema. She is a genre filmmaker and a Gold winner of the Student Academy Awards. Her creative work explores gender and sexuality, historical trauma, affect, the abject, and pleasures. She has screened at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Fantastic Fest, Torino Film Festival, and more. Her research works were published on MAI: Feminism & Culture. She is a contributing author of the concluding chapter in Aaron Kerner’s book, Abject Pleasures in the Cinematics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
