11 Apr 2026 (Sat)

Session 1: 1:30 - 3:30 pm

Session 2: 3:30 - 5:30 pm

Pay what you wish

活动地址： Pioneer Women’s Hall, Ellen Melville Centre

Screening 放映：

1:30 - 3:30 pm: Love Queer Cinema Week 2025 – New Works 25年爱酷新作

Room, Trans, Holding Breath, In the Clouds, Asian Bitches Speak

《房间》《跨儿》《吸气，呼气》《云端上是什么颜色》《亚裔婊贝正发声》

3:30 - 5:30 pm: The Living Archive Collection – Old Works 活档案馆藏影片

Our Story; New Beijing, New Marriage; Love Is a Book

《我们的故事》《新前门大街》《爱是一本书》

Q&A with Jenny Man Wu, founder of The Living Archive

映后交流：“活档案”发起人 吴漫

Curatorial Statement 策展陈述

The Living Archive of Queer Cinema in Chinese Context  is a community-driven project of cinematic memory. It focuses on Chinese-language queer films created under conditions of censorship, diaspora, and ongoing social pressure. Many significant works have never entered official systems of preservation; their very existence carries uncertainty. We hope these films can continue to be seen and discussed, rather than quietly disappearing in the gaps of time and institutions.

To preserve is to remain after cancellation.

This Auckland launch places contemporary works and historical films within the same screening space.

“华语酷儿电影活档案”是一项由社群推动的影像记忆计划。它关注那些在审查、离散与现实压力中诞生的华语酷儿电影。许多重要的作品并未进入官方体系，存在本身就带着不确定性。我们希望让这些影像继续被观看、被讨论，而不是在时间与制度的夹缝中悄然消失。

保存，是对被消失的一种抵抗。

本次奥克兰发布，将当下创作与历史影像放在同一个放映现场。

Love Queer Cinema Week 2025 – New Works 爱酷2025新作单元

Room, Trans, Holding Breath,  In the Clouds, Asian Bitches Speak

《房间》《跨儿》《吸气，呼气》《云端上是什么颜色》《亚裔婊贝正发声》

These films reflect the current state of Chinese queer filmmaking. They engage with bodies, gender identity, Asian subjectivity, and intimate relationships, while also grappling with the realities in which these expressions take shapes. Through this selection, we may glimpse what audiences in Beijing are watching today, and imagine the social contexts in which emotional resonance takes shape. As films travel between cities, experiences begin to reflect and illuminate one another.

这些影片呈现了此刻华语酷儿电影的创作状态。它们关乎身体、性别认同、亚裔经验与亲密关系，也触及在复杂现实中的表达方式。透过这组作品，我们得以想象北京观众正在观看什么样的影像，在怎样的社会语境中产生回应。影像在不同城市之间流动，经验也在观看中彼此照见。

The Living Archive Collection - Old Works 活档案馆藏单元

Our Story; New Beijing, New Marriage; Love Is a Book

《我们的故事》《新前门大街》《爱是一本书》

Our Story and New Beijing, New Marriage document a chapter of queer activist history that has nearly faded from public memory. They preserve traces of collective action and voices once raised in public space, allowing moments that have gradually slipped from dominant narratives to surface again.

《我们的故事》与《新前门大街》记录了一段几乎被遗忘的酷儿行动历史。它们保存了公共空间中的发声与组织痕迹，使那些曾真实发生、却逐渐淡出主流叙事的时刻重新浮现。

Love Is a Book is a work by the late filmmaker Lai Yuqing. With delicacy and clarity, she portrayed queer intimacy, sustaining emotional nuance amid social pressure. Her passing has made these images even more precious, and reminds us that Chinese queer filmmakers and their works remain in a state of profound vulnerability. Creation often entails enduring multiple, intersecting pressures.

《爱是一本书》则是已故导演赖宇晴的作品。她以细腻而敏锐的方式书写酷儿亲密关系，让情感在现实压力之中依然保有温度。她的离世，使这些影像显得格外珍贵，也再次提醒我们：华语酷儿电影人及其作品始终处在高度脆弱的状态之中。创作往往意味着承受多重交叉压力。

In this context, building a Living Archive is not an act of nostalgia, but an ongoing cultural practice. It allows images to leave traces, viewing to become connection, and the names and subjectivities of queer filmmakers to remain present.

在这样的现实之下，建立“活档案”并非出于怀旧，而是一种持续性的文化实践。让影像留下痕迹，让观看成为连接，让创作者的名字与主体经验不被抹去。

Curator Jenny Man Wu

策展人 吴漫