<喊叫與耳語> 這部紀錄片拍攝了八年(2007-2015),旨在展示女性在中國和香港的私人和公共領域的鬥爭。它提供了女工、藝術家、維權人士和知識分子的生活觀。所有這些人都遭遇政治暴力、警察襲擊、性騷擾、網上欺淩、長期與家人分離、跨國工廠的任意處理,以及她們來自的家鄉 —— 貧困農村。
這部電影描繪了在珠三角工廠工作的農村婦女,她們自行組織,抗議爭取基本工資和社會保險。與此同時,活躍分子和年輕的知識分子曾金燕秘密創作了視頻日記,以保持自己的理智,詳細介紹了她抵抗性別壓力和政治壓迫的經歷,以獲得自主權和意識。在她在香港和中國的生活中,我們聚集在中國著名知識份子艾曉明家中,這些女權主義者聚集在一起。一位中國女性藝術家在表演中用刀片劃自己的臉,表達自己對暴力侵害婦女的抵制。
愛爾蘭視覺藝術家Trish McAdam在電影中製作的動畫。她將中國女工的經歷與英國工業革命時期工人的命運聯系起來,還有女工在工廠被監控的鏡頭,以及反映富士康工廠的自殺事件,在在呈現了暴力侵害婦女行為的創傷。
Shot over an eight-year period (2007-2015), this documentary film aims to present women’s struggle in the private and public spheres, both in China and Hong Kong. It offers a view into the lives of female factory workers, artists, rights activists, and intellectuals—all of whom deal with political violence, SWAT police attack, sexual harassment, online bullying, long-term separation from family, arbitrary treatment by transnational factory management, and/or poverty in their home villages.
The film depicts rural women working in factories in the pearl delta that self-organize, pro-testing for their basic payment and social insurance. Meanwhile, activist and young intellec-tual Zeng Jinyan creates a film diary in secret to maintain her own sanity, detailing her expe-riences of resisting gendered pressure and political oppression in order to gain self-autonomy and awareness. In following her life in Hong Kong and China, we are taken to feminists gathering in Ai Xiaoming’s home, which became a semi-public space in the party-state. A Chinese artist cuts her face in a performance to express her own resistance to the violence against women.
Irish visual artist Trish McAdam produces and directs animations in the film, employing an irreverent style to attract younger audiences. Through animations, she links the experience of female factory workers in digital China and during the British Industrial Revolution, enhances footage of surveillance in a factory office, reflects on the Foxconn factory suicides, and considers the traumatic impact of violence against women.