Looking back, Lou Ye’s filmography is also a history of his battle with China’s censorship system. He continues his sentimental documentation style of China’s history in this most recent work, An Unfinished Film. The hotel scenes drag everyone to the tumultuous and absurd early 2020, the pandemic year. Everything seems so familiar, while so strange and distant after five years. The collective vulnerability is documented but it unfortunately stops there. Then it turns to questioning the film directors’ responsibilities during…

A stunning Black cinematography, I like how the director chooses to overexposure to show the Black trans sex workers in gray zone, a really rebel to the current photography targeted at Caucasian ppl. And this is her first documentary, so fresh and full of energy!

I read her interview, she claims that “…it's very hard to find an LGBT documentary that is easy to watch and enjoyable. Everything's a trauma. Everything's a story of trauma. It's filled with statistics that…