SYNOPSIS

Speak Outfollows a queer carnival to tell the story of a group of people’s encounters and growth, focusing on the different paths chosen by sexual minorities in the collision of secular ideas and self-identity. Based on polyphonic narrative, the film tells the stories of “them”, showing their living conditions and expressing the concept of diversified life.

Speak Out is a silent piece, with this title, we want to represent the ongoing Chinese LGBT movement, in which the protagonists have been mute for a long time by the mainstream. This imbalance between majorities and minorities results in the absence of discourse. After years of speaking out, the key problem has been shifted from “existence” to “how to exist”. This film is a record of a group of people who are brave enough to be themselves and speak out for love, they are the witnesses and participants of transformation, which in return made this film become a video history of the Chinese LGBT+ movement.

阐述：

This film, made four years ago, has many clips that seem extremely precious today, because they are not only images of the lives of the documented people, or even of the crew members, but also memories scattered throughout the history of the LGBT+ movement in central China. When the film was made, the creative team had almost nothing more than enthusiasm, and gradually the footage was forgotten, but the trust of our partners kept us alive. Every time we recalled those days, we seemed to have a sense of responsibility as fearless as the title Speak Out, which is probably what prompted us to show such an immature work a few years later.