December 10, beautiful young, the moment to do eternal-chen June, a lifetime for comrades to fight for rights, with images and words to build comrade's refuge, his gentle will, forever in our hearts. On the way to gender equality and affirmative marriage, we still have to continue to hold hands and move forward with determination.
Documentary director Chen June, died yesterday (December 10) due to cardiac shock, at the age of 51. At this point you may ask: Chen June, who is it?
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The documentary will take something that the text can't see, and the text can write cruel and dangerous secrets that the documentary Can't Touch.
Chen June, who has loved movies since high school, began to come into contact with filmmaking in his second year of college, and made a voluntary feeling about the "gay fear" of Taiwanese society at that time: "We must become an independent strong woman!" "At the age of 30, opting out of the closet, he said:" My interviewees have revealed their identities in "not just the Feast", As a director, I have more obligation not to conceal my identity, "he thought, the previous generation of comrades is very sad and repressed, and he walked through these arduous road, he hopes that through the power of image and writing, so that the next generation of comrades can bravely live out of themselves." (Extended reading: Mahin | Gay movement, seeking to break free from the label of the Soul Freedom )
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I use the eyes of my own people to shoot the story of my own people, there is a kind of pity for the survivors.
He is a pioneer and representative of Taiwan's gay documentary, in addition to speaking out for gay issues, which also include gender performances, sexual harassment, AIDS, domestic violence and other issues. Zhu once said: "So far, comrades in Taiwan have recorded comrades in the image, and my top three are, Chen June, Chen June, Chen Junzhi." 」
In 1997, Chen Junzhi completed the first documentary work, "Not just the Feast", and then completed the "Comrade trilogy"── "Beautiful Teen", "Happy Memo" and "No puppet home, the city of the past", respectively, depicting three different generations of gay stories, he believes that Taiwan's comrades also need to have their own ethnic history, Take the story of one's own people with their own eyes, convinced that this is not the same as the eyes of outsiders to record. His video works have brought a warm place for his comrades to settle down. (Extended reading: The unfinished Road to gender equality: from the rose teenager Ye Yongji to see Taiwan justice )
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Even if you are crushed, you still have to love.
He published "Taipei Daddy, New York mom" in 2011, revealing his ego and family history, documenting his father's debt, his parents fleeing to the United States, and then divorced because of his father's affair, leaving him, his sister, his brother and his sister in Taiwan; his sister died of a drug overdose when he was 17; he went to the United States to study The boyfriend cheated on his own sister. He said: "The most incredible thing about our family is that everyone is broken, everyone is broken, the heart has hate for each other, there is a debt, there is a scolding, there is no export of hate, deep love." We are to be crushed or to love. 」
He wrote in the book: "I clearly see, in the past lying over there, how much love, quiet into light smoke, fluttering to, fleeting left." "The father, too, broke off his son-child relationship because of his gay identity, and he described himself as a lone soul--a man without a family and a fatherless man." It was only with the departure of his father that the process of reconciliation with his father began. When it comes to the impression of Chen Junzhi, some people say that-sad and powerful, he has experienced pain, but because he has pain, he knows better with strength, to give comrades assistance and warmth.
In love and hate, he still believes that happiness is possible.
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He always calls himself "mother", but everyone calls him "Sister Qi", Qi is from his English name Mickey, Mickey's QI. Hu Shuwen wrote the next paragraph on Facebook: "Mickey Evil a lifetime, does not apologize, does not repent." Genuine queer, human loss of lattice. Apart from paying homage, there is nothing to say. "Feelings" Qi "born.
"Beautiful boy, now to do eternity." "Though his flesh is gone, his gentle will to fight for the rights and interests of his comrades is eternal in our hearts, and he is a beautiful teenager forever--Chen Junzhi." On the way to gender equality and affirmative marriage, we still have to continue to hold hands and go on with determination.
With Chen Junzhi words, keep moving.
We are all in our own lonely world, dancing a double dance.
There is no time to wait for the meticulous healing, their own injury is good.
I would rather use "poetic justice" (the Justice of poetry) in Aristotle's Poetics than the objective justice of journalism.
In pure creation, life is like a flower.
I was a creator with a camera and a real-life negotiation, and I never felt that my film had deliberately emphasized the good side of comrades, because that was what I saw in gay life.
My works, will still retain my cool style of humor and the advance of the gay outlook on life.