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Additionally, Su’s film The Women’s Revenge was part of the “IFFR Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2021” and later on in June (during his residency at 1646) he will present a performance during the Art Directions program of the IFFR. Using cinematic effects and extreme violence, Su’s works summon film history back to the world of the living.ġ646 is also excited to announce that Su will be doing a residency at 1646 from May to July. The Cinema of Séance, as a title is inspired by Julian Ross’ essay on Su’s work, Midnight Séance, and shows that to pay hommage to the forgotten ghosts of film history means bringing them to life again. Having inspired Su’s own The Women’s Revenge, in which Su himself also appears and partakes in the vengeance, the black movies are brought to the present-day context. The artist paves the way for the possibility of reviewing and supplementing history with his reflective practice, ”re-shooting” early Taiwanese experimental films. Su Hui-Yu examines the borders of bodies, sexuality, along with the entanglement of socio-political conduct and prohibition. These productions also signaled the beginning of an immensely transformative period in the country. The films provided an outlet to the era’s desire and the sexual repression under government rule. The Cinema of Séance engages taboos of the past and the present while exploring the mechanism of oppression and liberation tied to the island country’s cultural values.Ī few years before martial law, imposed by Kuomintang (known as the Chinese Nationalist Party), was lifted in Taiwan in the 1980s, a cult-genre of women’s revenge films emerged, called ‘black movies’ - strong female protagonists on a vengeful path against an oppressive society. Su’s works center around Taiwanese history, memory, reimagination and transgression. The newest work, coproduced by 1646, is The Women’s Revenge, a five-channel video installation, along with a print inspired by 80s cult-film cinema posters from Su’s visceral childhood memories. In The Glamorous Boys of Tang (2018) Su presents a re-creation of a 1985 film written by renowned poet and screenwriter Chui Kang-Chien – a homoerotic fantasy moving across gender and subculture in Taiwan’s diverse society. Super Taboo (2015), a two-channel film adaptation of a pornographic publication of the same title that explores fantasy and the erotic from an angle of illegality and constraint.

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