Abstract
Chapter 5 examines experimental documentaries by women and queer filmmakers such as Tang Danhong, Shi Tou, and Cui Zi’en, as well as various experimental videos and digital media projects by Wang Qingsong, Feng Mengbo and other contemporary artists. All discussed works blur the boundary between self and other and between camera and performance, making it clear that subjectivities are actually imagined, contested, and produced in close and conscious relation to representational media and the particular historical moment, in this case, postsocialism. Shaping forth from this complex interplay of historical energy, media appropriation, and subjective interventions are some of the most sophisticated critical subjects of contemporary China. Documentaries under close analysis include: Nightingale, Not the Only Voice; Women’s Fifty Minutes; The Narrow Path; Night Scene.
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