| I. Struggles A ( Totally 87 min ): |
| The Helmet │Identity Behind the Mirror│PROLESB |
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Queer people each experience a different degree of bodily and psychological injury when they confront the historically and culturally formed stereotypes about gender and sexual orientation society gives them. They struggle to find their own safety zone in the family, school, workplace and society at large. |
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【Struggles A】Films' Introduction：
The Helmet (top)
One∣2003∣South Korea∣Fiction∣Color∣25 min∣Korean dialogues∣Chinese & English subtitles
The Helmet is the second film of the director One, who has introduced the teenage female force as a significant part of Korea's independent film scene through her first short Keeping the Sea, an account of ‘bad girls' wandering the city. The Helmet follows a young woman's private journey through sexual self –discovery to the eventual realization that she is a lesbian. A “Helmet” comes to symbolize female homosexuality throughout the film. By weaving personal experience into the mostly fictional narrative, the director presents some of her own stories as part of a greater history of homosexuality in Korea.（Know Eun-sun）
Identity Behind the Mirror (top)
Julian JEEYASEELAN & Lina TAN∣2003∣Malaysia∣Documentary∣Color∣20 min∣Malay dialogues∣Chinese & English subtitles
3R (respect, relax, respond) is a popular young women's program in Malaysia which is well known for its feminist and human rights approach on issues dealing with youth especially young women. This episode dealing with lesbianism was banned by the Malaysian censorship board even though the producers had taken a anti discrimination stand on the issue. The banning of this episode reflects the Malaysian media's hardline stand against homosexuality. This is the banned episode and at the end of the program, the producers show Malaysian censorship board's reasons for banning the episode.
PROLESB (top)
Joselito MENDOZA∣2003∣Philippines∣Documentary∣Color∣42 min∣Filipino dialogues∣Chinese & English subtitles
The documentary video presents the pains and gains in organizing lesbians in the Philippines, particularly those in the lower economic bracket. Lee Topacio, founder of the org. and president, recounts her experiences in starting to get organized with the help of a friend and mentor, prolesb grew into a human rights org. with almost more than 200 members in metro manila and nearby provinces.The film tackles experiences in advocacy against discrimination at work, by families, and services for reproductive health and gender sensitivity for members and non-members, as well as partners. Interviews by feminist-lesbians and experts on the definition of Filipino lesbianism, and with other support characters are interspersed with actual scenes at work of prolesb officers.
An interesting study in organizing and lesbian working sector in this country (with English translation).
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