PLAYHOUSE
过家家
CHINA | 2022 | Drama, Children | Short | 10min
Director: Cao Xinyi
Screenwriter: Cao Xinyi
Executive Producer: Shen Lianlian, Shen Wei
Producer: Shen Lianlian
Cinematographer: Huang Huiyi
Editor: Huang Ji, Du Guangwei
Art Director: Su Xiayi
Sound: Liu Linqing, Li Guozhen
Starring: Nie Qiao, Li Xiuyi, Liu Yikai
导演:曹昕怡
编剧:曹昕怡
监制:沈涟涟、沈巍
制片:沈涟涟
摄影指导:黄慧怡
剪辑:黄骥、杜光玮
美术指导:苏夏一
声音:刘林青、李国真
主演:聂侨、李秀怡、刘奕凯
Synopsis
Xiao Lin and Chuan Yu are lesbian lovers who work in soft porn industries. One day a man hired them to act as his wife and daughter. However, the relationship among them gradually grew tense.
Director's Note
Festival&Award
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival 2022
Official Selection
Beijing Queer Film Festival 2022
Official Selection
2022 Beijing International Short Film Festival
Chinese Competition
In sex industry, there is no lack of role playings and body renting, which makes me reflect on the boundary between truth and falsehood inour daily lives, and the impact left by the family of origin. Xiao Lin and Chuan Yu are placed in the gap between truth and fiction in this family role-play. Sometimes they are themselves, sometimes they are forced to act like wife and daughter. Under the division, their original utopian relationship is eroded. Through this 'playhouse', I hope we could question: is this patriarchal family happiness? Or, the boundary becomes blurry and non-significant nowadays? In brief, I hope this short film could challenge some social construction in a feminism way. As long as we feel confused, even for a minute, that is a rebellion of things taken for granted.
Zoey CAO
Zoey Cao, majoring in film & television photography and production at Communication University of China. She played the role of screenwriter for the feature film DRIFTED IN LIFE, which entered the Lift-Off Global Network film festival.
She was the co-writer and director of cinematography of the feature drama Chang E, which entered the Italy LUCCA festival and the Brizail BC film festival. She directed and scripted the short films Devour, An abortion, and A backstage conversation. She has won the general champion of the selection of new literary talent by Shanghai Writers Association, the first prize in Shanghai Poetry Creation Competition.