18th(2016)
The VaChina Monologues
트레일러 재생
FAN Popo
- China
- 2014
- 29min
- Blu-ray
- color
- Documentary
Activism Documentary
SYNOPSIS
The Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) staged the Chinese debut of The Vagina Monologue in Dec. 2003. Since then, this feminist play, which came from the US and has been committed to the elimination of gender-based violence, had incited a vagina hurricane that blew all over mainland China. After ten years, we could revisit the stories of vaginas. We could talk to the participants, visit current actors and listen to their vagina stories.
The Vagina Monologues (1996), a feminist play created
by Eve ENSLER, was adopted to fit with Chinese culture
and performed in 2013 in Guangzhou, Shanghai,
and Beijing. The VaChina Monologues is the Chinese
production of The Vagina Monologues. This Chinese
adaptation focuses on how Chinese feminists and actors
interpret what women experience with their bodies,
such as menstruation, childbirth, sexual abuse, sexual
harassment, orgasm, and lesbianism. And it also shows
that a feminism fad swept over China after the play was
introduced in the country. The VaChina Monologues
reflects changes in Chinese feminism in the postcommunist
era. For your information, the The Vagina
Monologues was directed by LEE Hyae-kyung and
premiered in 2001 in Korea. [Sunah KIM]
PROGRAM NOTE
SYNOPSIS
The Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) staged the Chinese debut of The Vagina Monologue in Dec. 2003. Since then, this feminist play, which came from the US and has been committed to the elimination of gender-based violence, had incited a vagina hurricane that blew all over mainland China. After ten years, we could revisit the stories of vaginas. We could talk to the participants, visit current actors and listen to their vagina stories.
PROGRAM NOTE
The Vagina Monologues (1996), a feminist play created
by Eve ENSLER, was adopted to fit with Chinese culture
and performed in 2013 in Guangzhou, Shanghai,
and Beijing. The VaChina Monologues is the Chinese
production of The Vagina Monologues. This Chinese
adaptation focuses on how Chinese feminists and actors
interpret what women experience with their bodies,
such as menstruation, childbirth, sexual abuse, sexual
harassment, orgasm, and lesbianism. And it also shows
that a feminism fad swept over China after the play was
introduced in the country. The VaChina Monologues
reflects changes in Chinese feminism in the postcommunist
era. For your information, the The Vagina
Monologues was directed by LEE Hyae-kyung and
premiered in 2001 in Korea. [Sunah KIM]
Director
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FAN PopoFAN Popo
FAN Popo is a leading filmmaker and activist based in Beijing who is outspoken for LGBT rights in the field of media production and distribution. Popo graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy and he is the author of the book Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films, the first book published in mainland China on queer films. His trilogy Chinese Closet, Mama Rainbow, Papa Rainbow, focusing on LGBT families in China, had made strong impact on the Chinese society. His tireless working on LGBT visibility also includes serving as organizer for the Beijing Queer Film Festival, as well as founder of Queer University Video Training Camp.
Credit
- ProducerWU Xiaoyan
- Cinematography ZHANG Laodong
- Editor FAN Popo
