May 35

A haunting commemoration of the Tiananmen Square uprisings made from fragments of censored archival imagery transferred onto film using razor blades and scotch tape. “May 35” speaks to the difficulty of remembering in the absence of memory, especially when June 4 histories have been censored and obscured. It is a tribute to the thousands of lives devastated by this upheaval. Sound Design: Kadet Kuhne

Film Maker
Takemoto (Tina Takemoto), TT
Year
2019
Country
USA
Length
2
Language
No dialogue
Category
Abstraction, Activism + Protest, cameraless, Class-struggle, Community, Culture, found footage, Gender, Genocide, history, Identity, LGBTQ, media studies, Memory, Mortality, Networks, Photography, Politics + Policy, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Resistance, Society, Sound Art + Music, Time + Space, Urban, Violence, War + Conflict, Work by Women
Genre
experimental, hand-processed, queer, short