Triple Bill: Queer Kinships in Transition

我和我的T妈妈  (The Priestess Walks Alone) 
HUANG Hui-Chen, Taiwan 2016, 54 min, Hokkien and Mandarin with English subtitles, German Premiere

形婚之后 (Happily Ever After) 
HE Xiao-Pei, China 2019, 37 min. Chinese with English subtitles

至柔至坚 (What’s Softest in the World Rushes and Runs Over What’s Hardest in the World)
Charmaine POH, Singapore 2024, 14 min, English, German Premiere

Followed by a talk with Charmaine POH

This triple bill traces how queer kinship evolves across generations in East Asia. In The Priestess Walks Alone, a daughter uses the camera as a powerful tool for mutual reconciliation with her closeted mother and her burdened past. Happily Ever After explores the pragmatic yet subversive world of contract marriages between lesbians and gay men in China, revealing how the lesbian protagonists navigate familial obligations while subtly reshaping the meaning of kinship and care. In What’s Softest…, queer parenthood is reimagined through tenderness, play, and Eastern cosmology, positioning queerness not as lack, but as a space of generative possibility. (CiLENS)

Charmaine POH is an artist from Singapore working across media, moving image, and performance to peel apart, interrogate, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity.