女性的復仇
The Women's Revenge
- Directed : 蘇匯宇 SU Hui-yu
- Opening : 2021-11-19 00:00:00 ~ 2028-12-31 23:55:00
- Year : 2020
- Color : 彩色
- Length : 00:16:34
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Production:
Taiwan
Introduction
Prior to Taiwan's lifting of martial law, a group of films influenced by the European wave of exploitation movie was produced in the 1980s, including Never Too Late to Repent, Woman of Wrath, On the Social File of Shanghai, Woman Revenger and Queen Bee. This filmic genre featuring the motif of "women's revenge" would usually portray some severely oppressed heroines before culminating in bloody plots of vengeance. In continuation of Su's creative context of "re-shooting" in recent years, The Women's Revenge uses Taiwanese exploitation movies as a starting point to reexamines the problems of body regulation, seeking social novelty, modern discomforts and mediatized body. It also discusses how plots based on feminism have been turned into exploitation movies, reflects on the misunderstanding and exploitation of female sexuality in the system of image, and exposes how the contemporary body is manipulated by image technologies.
For the artist, these films point to a blackhole in history, in which a mixed bunch of images devours possible clues to explore the life politics of an entire generation. Formally speaking, the artist also takes part in the violent vengeance upon men by transforming himself into one of the avenging women – the box office guarantee for the 1980s Taiwanese cinema and the Best Leading Actress of the 20th Golden Horse Awards, Lu Shao-Fen, with a peculiarly proportioned body – through makeup and the technology of deepfake. The transformation also symbolizes an attempt to understand and experience women's world with a man's body.
Director's Profile
Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976, Taipei) obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003, and has remained active in the contemporary art scene ever since. Su's "Re-shooting" series(補拍系列) centers around Taiwanese and East Asian history, memory, re-imagination and transgression. His recent projects engage collective memories and ideologies while exploring the mechanism of oppression and liberation tied to Taiwan cultural values.
Su's works have been exhibited at renowned festivals, exhibitions and art institutes, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (the Netherlands), the Videonale (Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition (China), Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture(China), Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art(Brazil), MOCA Taipei(Taiwan),Taipei Fine Arts Museum(Taiwan), Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts(Taiwan), San Jose Museum of Art (California, USA), Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center(Thailand), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), and collected by three major public art museums in Taiwan, JUT Art Museum in Taipei, and the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia. In 2017, International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a retrospective to Su's video works, while his video work Super Taboo had its world premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films. Su returned to the Tiger Short Competition in 2019 and 2021 with The Glamorous Boys of Tang and The Women's Revenge. His upcoming exhibition will feature at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester, and Kunsthalle Winterthur in Switzerland this Autumn.
Participation and award records
★2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam
★2021 Golden Harvest Awards
★2021 Frameline 45
★2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
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