Chinese Queers; Diasporic Dykes: Saving Face + Reality Fragment 160921

Programmed by Yifan He

Alice Wu’s Saving Face screened at Sundance in 2005, the first mainstream Asian-American lesbian film and a beautiful, underappreciated rom com that navigates tensions between Queer identity and cultural heritage.

This screening, programmed by writer, curator and artist Yifan He, explores Chinese diasporic lesbian identity through film and shared resources. In addition to Saving Face, interdisciplinary artist April Lin 林森 will present the short film Reality Fragment 160921, a genre-defying mixture of docufiction, experimental narrative, and video art about two people curating their own universe.

You’ll be able to take home a zine by April and Yifan made for the screening, with insights about the films as well as a curated list of other films that represent East Asian lesbians and Queer people who experience misogyny.