Asian Movie Night: Sanguine Specters Stick To The Skin
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From the tenacious roars of 60s art subcultures in Tokyo, Japan to the spine-chilling, prayer-like whispers of contemporary Southeast Asian cinema, queer lives have always been found at the center of artistic reflections of cultures and histories. With this edition Asian Movie Night is exploring how to engage with our (queer) pasts and what we see in the (queer) stories told by those that came before us.
Who has been made present and who has been left wanting by the sidelines?
What happens at the intersections of queerness with national identity, culture, community and state?
Sanguine Specters Stick to the Skin is a reflection on past and contemporary cinematic depictions of queer lives and histories and the cultural heritages that we carry with us.
Join us for a very special film accompanied by a panel talk with speakers Yi Wang, Andy Zhu and Maoyi, moderated by curator Kleopatra Vorria, as well as an after drawing workshop with drinks!
This is the only full-length feature film made at his own expense by Isao Fujisawa, who was an assistant director at Toei at the time, having worked on Hiroshi Teshigahara’s “Woman in the Dunes” and “The Face of Others”. Influenced by pop art, and the French New Wave, this is a unique love story of an outlaw couple’s escapades when faced with the faded promises of their counterculture era. A bizarre world created by the dazzling primary colors and psychedelic images of the 1970s, Utamaro and Giiko wander in search of freedom, liberation and transformation. Where will they end up? With a theme that was ahead of its time, this is a hidden gem of independent film made on the tails of Japanese New Wave, showing the first traces of a new queer cinema. The film had been long considered lost, but in 2018 the original negative was discovered in a warehouse and a new print was made.
‘Scene & Seen workshop:
A’ is a hands-on workshop that explores the concept of Asianness through the lens of Asian cinema, using film as a catalyst to examine and reinterpret cultural identity. Participants will engage with iconic scenes, objects, and moments from film to create experimental visual responses—doodles, sketches, and compositions—that reflect their impressions and lived experiences. As part of the Asian Movie Night Seasonal Festival, this session invites participants to reimagine the boundaries of Asianness through colour, texture, and form, transforming fleeting cinematic images into personal visual definitions of culture.
