VIII. T Break ( total 84min ):
Enter the Mullet│Voice of the Sunflower│Girls│My Hair Under 25cm│the Helmet
Each society has its own set of appellations and connotations for lesbian images and sexual (self-) identities. Taiwan has “T,” [tomboy] “po,” [femme] “bufen,” [neither] “lazi” [lesbian]; Hong Kong has TB [tomboy], TBG [tomboy girl], pure; China begins to see in China there are emergent “lala” [lesbian] and T and P [po]. These divergent and yet overlapping lexicons indicate a development of irreducibly multiple modes of sexual identification and stylization among lesbians. They aggressively, or subtly, subvert and resist the violence of society's stereotypical identity and image of “woman” and “women.”
★ Director's Attendance
2005/08/09 (Tue)   13:40 Spot Cinema ★ 180
2005/08/10 (Wed)   13:40 Spot Cinema ★ 180

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

【Ｔ Break】Films' Introduction：

Enter the Mullet (top)
Donna LEE∣2003∣ Canada∣Documentary, Experimental∣Color∣5min 30sec∣English dialogues∣Chinese subtitles

Conflict resolution with a kick. Class meets race meet queerness on a good hair day.

Voice of the Sunflower
Seven∣2000∣Taiwan∣Fiction∣Color∣32min∣Mandarin dialogues∣Chinese & English subtitles

Photographer Mo lives opposite to couple Yiyi and Jia-Yang. Mo loves Yiyi but Yiyi doesn't know that. Mo finds Yiyi's spare key by accident and often enters their house at day to use Yiyi's personal things and read her diary. One day, Yiyi picks up Mo's picture and they gradually acquaint with each other. When Mo takes picture for Yiyi, Yiyi suddenly finds that Mo's coat smells the same as her own. Shocked, Yiyi takes back the spare key. However, she finally realizes that the warm feeling of that smell is what she wants.

There are many ways of communicating in this world. Some people use spoken language, some use writing, some use action. The three protagonists in this story are used to three ways of communicating. Jia-Yang speaks well but is not interested in communicating with anyone; Yi-Yi is used to writing, but cannot make Jia-Yang understand; Mo learns to understand Yi-Yi's needs through her diary, and takes action to express concern. "Smell" is an important medium in the story, it is not just an olfactory sense but a sensual-emotional intuition.

Girls
LO Chak Wing∣2005∣Hong Kong∣Fiction∣Color∣14min∣Cantonese dialogues∣Chinese subtitles

Adapted from a classical lesbian short story in Hong Kong She is a Woman, I am a Woman, two college girls, a nerd and a femme fatale, moved into the same dormitory room and found themselves increasingly dependent on each other.

My Hair Under 15 cm (top)
Queer n' Class∣2005∣Taiwan∣Documentary∣Color∣20min∣Mandarin dialogues∣Chinese subtitles

In Taiwan, after the lifting of martial law and high school hair restriction, a high school sets a new law to restrict their T (butch) students. Different from previous worries about students being too "beautiful" and feminine, the new law forbids students from cutting hair shorter than 15cm. In this film, three adult T (butch) talk tirelessly about how important and difficult it is to have a smart hairstyle. The hairstyle concerns less beauty value than "self identity".

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）

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