Trace on My Body(2024)

A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything belongs to my body.

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Official Selection, Milwaukee Illuminate Film Festival, Milwaukee WI, USA
Official Selection, OBSKURA Analog Film Festival, Rennes, France Official Selection, Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, Las Cruces, NM
Official Selection, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
Official Selection, Underneath the Floorboards, London, UK
Official Selection, AVIFF le festival du film d’artiste, Cannes, France
Official Selection, GRRL HAUS Cinema, Boston, MA
Official Selection, MicroActs • Artist Film Screening, London, UK
Official Selection, Wave_Motion Exhibition, The Holy Art, London, UK
Official Selection, Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico

Crew
Camera/Producer – Yanghuixiao Gao
Concept/Edit/Performer – Yue Hua
Animation/Sound – Yue Hua
Production Assistant – Altagracia Acevedo, Carol Shen, Yi Liu
Projector Operator – Yizhi Yi
Colorist – Xiaoyi Luo

Special thanks to Emerson College Film Post Lab, Stephen Jackson, Paul Turano, and Kathryn Ramey