Michelle Chow

See More Short Films!: New Voices in Taiwanese Short Film at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Last month, Taipei’s SPOT-Huashan theater was home to the Women Make Waves International Film Festival. First held in 1993, the Women Make Waves festival has now completed its 31st edition–about the same age as Lumi. Over the course of ten days, the festival showed more than a hundred screenings, organized by the Taiwan Women’s Film Association around the theme of “Spacing.” Interpreted by the festival’s chairperson Joyce Tang as 缝隙 (gap, or fissure), this theme was explored with breadth and nuance through the curatorial team’s selection of films, which sounded the complex terrains of war, work, sex, gender, and national identity...
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Michelle Chow

Michelle Chow is a PhD student studying literature and film, and a graduate fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University. Her current research looks broadly at how 20th and 21st literature and film mobilize aesthetics and archives to represent and redress historical and ongoing violence within the structures of global racial capitalism. Her criticism has been published in Film Comment, The Oxonian Review, and The Chicago Review.