#week 144

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Kiss of the Rabbit God. dir. Andrew Thomas Huang. 2019.

“I grew up with a deficit of queer Asian visibility on-screen along with the frequent stigmatization and devaluing of Asian male bodies in Western visual culture. I wanted to unpack these issues while also crafting a story that I felt enriched our collective imagination of what queer Asian male love, sex and intimacy could aspire to be.” 

Huang’s first fictional short film, Kiss of the Rabbit God follows a restaurant worker who receives nightly visits from the Rabbit God, also known as Tu’er Shen — the Chinese patron deity of secret relationships and gay love. The 14-minute film explores themes of self-discovery, sexual awakening, and self-acceptance, interwoven with tales from traditional Chinese mythology.

Kiss of the Rabbit God can be watched for free via NOWNESS’ YouTube channel (link).

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This is week 144, folks!

I am looking for authors or new stories to read. If you know an author or story that I’m not reading, please let me know!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Fifty Year's Worth - juststella aka @justajjfan

Everlark Drabbles - RainbowUnicorn_12

Love is Work - @butrfac14

A New Path - @butrfac14

Endgame - redheadedflame

A Bump On The Head - @mtk4fun

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (植物园). dir Dai Sijie (戴思杰). 2006. 

The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters, French name Les filles du botaniste, is a French and Canadian produced film by director Dai Sijie. The film is about a famous botanist, whose daughter falls in love with a female botany student who is studying at his home. The relationship is risky and taboo, and when the botanist finds out, he dies of a heart attack in shock. The two women and their homosexuality are blamed for his death. The film was deemed “improper” by China and thus although it was set in China, it was not filmed nor shown there. 

Dai Sijie is a director and author, born in Chengdu in 1954. In his late teen years during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to a re-education camp, an experience that later shaped his works. In 1984, he went to France on a scholarship to study at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. 

Traditional Foods series. Marcella Chan. Photography. 2018. 

Marcella Chan is a freelance photographer, and has a degree in fine art photography from Bournemouth University. Her Traditional Foods series explores her dual British-Chinese identity, weaving foods from both cultures together and into the same context. She has been commissioned to create fifteen more photos with this same theme for an exhibition at China Exchange in London’s Chinatown, which will run from July 9-14, 2019. 

Pain toast (法蘭西多士) by accusefive (告五人). 2019.

Accusefive is an indie band originating from Taiwan. Comprised of members Fan Yunan (潘雲安), Quan Qing (犬青) and Lin Zheqian (林哲謙), accusefive began in 2011 when Fan won a grant and began uploading songs with his friends on the music-sharing platform StreetVoice. Although the band disbanded soon after, Fan revived accusefive in 2017 in its present iteration. They are currently known as one of Taiwan’s rising indie stars, having received a series of accolades for their debut EP Let Go (迷霧之子) and sold out their first nationwide tour.

Accusefive incorporates a multitude of genres in their music- with influences as far ranging as folk rock, synth pop, and new wave. Pain toast is the debut single of their first full-length album Somewhere in time, I love you (我肯定在幾百年前就說過愛你).

Friends of My Youth. Ho Tam. Oil on canvas. 1995-2014.

Ho Tam is a multimedia artist born in Hong Kong and educated in Canada and the US. He is skilled in multiple art mediums, including video, print media, photography and painting and is currently based in Vancouver. Before pursuing a career as an artist, he worked in advertising and in community psychiatric facilities. His works are humorous and satirical, often reflecting on Asian experiences in North America and Western stereotypes of Asian cultures. He spends most of his time in print publishing, taking on the role of creator, editor, publicist and printer, and is frequently seen in international book fairs. 

Being Asian, male and queer, Ho Tam’s practice explores the concept of Asian masculinity as a part of himself through video, print, collage and painting. “I started to explore Asian masculinity in my early career, for example, in Matinee Idols (1994) and The Salary Men (1995–2014). I was trying to challenge the conventional ways Asian men are seen in North America mostly. It was almost a satire, but at the same time I was trying to present an alternative to how Asian men are seen.”

Images courtesy of Canadian Art