《交错剧场：紫禁城夜总会的一夜》

Theater of Crossed Roads: A Night at Forbidden City Nightclub

2019，单频彩色高清有声录像，40’24”

出演：Grant Avenue Follies, Coby Yee and Stephen King

剪辑：杨圆圆、庞玉红

第三幕剧本作者：Chuck Gee and Gum Ting

作品衍生自杨圆圆的正在进行中的电影长片《女人世界》，由影像装置与现场表演构成，表演于2019年9月12日-9月14日发生在上海外滩美术馆的RAM HIGHLIGHT，此次展出影像部分作品，表演者包括旧金山华埠夜总会的退役舞者余金巧（Coby Yee）与她的爱人/搭档史蒂芬·金，以及由退役舞者方美仙成立的舞蹈团体都板街舞团（Grant Avenue Follies）。作品名源于都板街舞团策划的一出晚餐剧“紫禁城夜总会的谋杀”。

 

2019, Single-channel HD video, colour, sound, 40 min 24 sec”

Featuing: Grant Avenue Follies, Coby Yee and Stephen King

Edited by Luka Yuanyuan Yang and Yuhong Pang

Script of Scene 3 written by Chuck Gee and Gum Ting

The video work is from a project derived from Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s feature film Women’s World, composed with video, installation and live performance. The performance took place during September 12th – September 14th, 2019 at Rockbund Art Museum’s RAM HIGHLIGHT 2019, featuring Coby Yee, a 93-year old dance icon from San Francisco Chinatown, with her lover/dance partner Stephen King, and Grant Avenue Follie – a senior dance troupe founded by a retired nightclub dancer Cynthia Yee. The title is inspired by dinner play Murder of the Forbidden City Nightclub produced by Grant Avenue Follies.

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相爱的柯比与史蒂芬

Coby & Stephen Are in Love

《相爱的柯比与史蒂芬》2019，单通道高清影像，30分41秒

导演+制片：杨圆圆，卡罗·那瑟斯 ｜ 主演：柯比·余，史蒂芬·金 ｜ 剪辑：阿历克斯·文克｜ 摄影：卡罗·那瑟斯 ｜ 录音：杨圆圆 ｜ 调色：阿历克斯·文克 ｜ 混音：丹·罗萨托

感谢：唐奂奂，上海外滩美术馆， Screening Room, Points North Institute, Jigsaw Productions

 

92岁的柯比经历了旧金山华埠夜总会年代，是一名退役的舞者，74岁史蒂芬经历了美国60年代反战运动，曾是一名实验电影导演，两个截然不同的个体晚年在舞池相爱。柯比是史蒂芬的造型师，她更新了史蒂芬的衣橱，但凡一同外出，他们从头到脚都是柯比制作的情侣装；史蒂芬则是柯比的档案管理员，她毕生积攒的舞者职业照不仅令他着迷，甚至重燃了他的创作动力。在拉斯维加斯终演来临前，柯比与史蒂芬开始准备二人谢幕之舞。

 

Coby & Stephen Are in Love, 2019, Single-channel HD Video, 30’41’’

Produced and Directed by Luka Yuanyuan Yang and Carlo Nasisse ｜ Featuring: Coby Yee and Stephen King | Edited by Alex Winker | Cinematography by Carlo Nasisse | Sound Recorded by Luka Yuanyuan Yang | Colored by Alex Winker | Sound Design by Dan Rosato | Contributing Producers Screening Room, Points North Institute, Jigsaw Productions | Film Consulting by Ruth Somalo

Supported by Tang Huanhuan, Rockbund Art Museum

 

Coby Yee, a 92-year-old retired nightclub dancer and icon from San Francisco Chinatown’s golden age, and Stephen King, a man 20 years her junior who has been an experimental filmmaker since the 1960s anti-war movement. They have found an unlikely love in each other through matching outfits, dance, and art.  Coby updated Stephen’s wardrobe soon after they started dating, she hand-makes all of their clothes and ensures that they never leave the house without matching outfits from head to toe. Stephen has become Coby’s personal archivist, he creates photo albums and collages constructed from glamorous images of Coby, from the past and the present. As their final performance in Las Vegas approaches, Coby and Stephen start to prepare their last dance on the curtain call.

 

《相爱的柯比与史蒂芬》于以下电影节放映: 

卡姆登国际电影节，缅因州卡姆登，2019年9月

大天空纪录片电影节，蒙大拿州米苏拉，2020年2月

独立制片电影节，南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚

雅典国际电影和录像节，俄亥俄州雅典，2020年4月

阿什兰独立电影节，俄勒冈州阿什兰，2020年4月

休斯敦亚裔太平洋岛民电影节，2020年6月

1895年电影节，北京（在线），2020年5月

CineCina-Horizo​​n 2020项目，杭州，深圳，南京，北京，2020年7月至10月

人行道电影节，阿拉巴马州伯明翰，2020年8月

纽约市DUMBO电影节，2020年9月，

亚特兰大电影节，乔治亚州亚特兰大市，2020年9月

温泉城纪录片电影节，阿肯色州（在线），2020年10月

第43届亚美国际电影节，纽约，2020年10月

西湖IDF，2020年10月，杭州

台湾国际女性影展，台湾，2020年10月

独立孟菲斯电影节，孟菲斯田纳西州，2020年10月

新奥尔良电影节，洛杉矶新奥尔良，2020年11月

Hi Shorts电影节，厦门，中国，2020年12月

女性主义阅览室，北京，中国，2021年7月

bc+pick”无限接近”女性导演短片放映，深圳百老汇，中国，2021年7月

高台新疆青年影展，乌鲁木齐，中国，2021年8月

Cat’s Corner, Beijing, Aug 2021

Downtown Swing, Shanghai, Sep 2021

第四届巴黎中国作者电影展，巴黎，2021年9月

‘Coby and Stephen are in Love’ has been screened at following film festivals (in time order):

Camden International Film Festival, Camden, ME, Sept, 2019

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, Feb, 2020

Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC, Mar, 2020

Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, April, 2020

Ashland Independent Film Festival, Ashland, OR, April, 2020

Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival, Houston (Online), June, 2020

Film Festival 1895, Beijing (Online) , May, 2020

CineCina – Project Horizon 2020, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Beijing, July-Oct, 2020

Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, Aug, 2020

Dumbo Film Festival, NYC (Online) , Sept, 2020

Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA (Online) , Sept, 2020

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas(Online), Oct, 2020

43rd Asian American International Film Festival, NYC (Online) , Oct, 2020

Westlake IDF, Hangzhou, Oct, 2020

Women Make Waves, Taiwan, Oct, 2020

Indie Memphis, Memphis, TN Oct, 2020

New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, Nov, 2020

HiShorts Film Festival, Xiamen, China, Dec, 2020

Feminism Reading Room, Beijing, China, July 2021

bc+pick: Infinitely Close, female director’s shorts corner, Shenzhen, China, July 2021

Gaotai Xinjianng Film Festival, Urumqi，China, August 2021

Cat’s Corner, Beijing, Aug 2021

Downtown Swing, Shanghai, Sep 2021

Allers Retours Film Festival, Paris, Sep 2021

中国城轶事

Tales of Chinatown

 

2019，单通道彩色有声高清录像，19分11秒

影片由一场旧金山中国城步行之旅展开：随着40年代奥森·威尔士的电影《上海来的女士》走入旧金山中国城最后一家现存的戏院，又从“上海楼”漫步到“紫禁城夜总会”，镜头跟随着华裔舞者方美仙（Cynthia Yee）、历史学家王万力（Wylie Wong）与李萱颐（David Lei）的步伐，踏上一场时空交叠的旅程。

2019, Single-channel HD Video, 19’11”

The film opens with a walking tour in San Francisco Chinatown: walking into the last surviving theater following the scene from the 1940s film “Lady from Shanghai” directed by Orson Welles; wandering from “Shanghai Low” to “Forbidden City Nightclub” – the camera follows the pace of Chinese American nightclub dancer Cynthia Yee, historians Wylie Wong and David Lei onto a journey across time and space.

 

上海来的女士

The Lady from Shanghai

 

《上海来的女士》，单通道彩色有声高清录像，2019，16’24”

导演/制片: 杨圆圆 出演: 吴锡锡, 吴继贞 剪辑/调色: 戴岷 摄像/录音：杨圆圆 混音: 戴岷，Juan Pablo Tramujas

感谢：上海城市空间艺术季

尽管在旧金山渡过了大半生，78岁的吴锡锡始终将自己视为“来自上海的女士”。而她101岁的失忆母亲，每天会在口中喃喃自语 “这是哪里？我在上海吗？”  找第三任丈夫时，她甚至只考虑来自上海的男人。在电影中，吴锡锡分享了自己与上海前夫的爱情日记，讲述了二人跨越语言与地理限制、在千禧年通过交友网站结下的爱情故事。

 

The Lady from Shanghai, 2019, Single-channel HD video, colour, sound, 16min24sec

Directed & Produced by  Luka Yuanyuan Yang Featuring: Cecilia “Cee Cee” Wu & Stella Wu  Edited & Colored by Min Dai Cinematography & Sound Recorded by Luka Yuanyuan Yang  Sound Designed by Min Dai, Juan Pablo Tramujas

Special thanks: Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS)

Despite living in San Francisco for her entire adult life, the 78-year-old Ceecee Wu has always considered herself as “the lady from Shanghai”, so does her 101-year-old mother with amnesia who always muttered “Where is this? Am I in Shanghai?”   In this film, Ceecee shares a love journal between her and her ex-husband from Shanghai, the two met each other through a dating website in the millennium and formed a relationship that defeats the obstacle of language and geographical boundaries.