Sixi Screening Project
A peaceful wrinkle: the tender imprints in mother-daughter ramblings
Sixi Museum × Beiwei Screening
Screening of Film Baking, Born Again and A Tomato Girl
Event Flow
14:30 - 16:20
Film Screening + Q&A with Director
Baking (去年，七月零四日的蔓越莓司康)
Born Again (环)
A Tomato Girl (海都是海)
16:20 - 17:00
Discussion Salon
Guest: Xu Yihan
Event Review
On Mother’s Day, 12 May, Sixi Museum, in collaboration with BeiweiScreening, organised a special screening event of short films, exploring the issues of motherhood and women’s roles in society.
The three emerging female directors of the films take the camera to record the "mother’s experience" from their own perspectives, the bond and attachment between mother and daughter surge through the image narrative. In Baking and Born Again, despite featuring two different stories, one can witness mothers who harbour romantic feelings but are afraid to show and release them due to reality and rationality.
Unlike these two films that focus on revealing the inner world of mothers, The Tomato Girl blends stop-motion animation, scenario play, and recorded interviews in a narrative that screens the most authentic, mixed love-hate mother-daughter relationship.
In the discussion, event guest Xu Yihan, founder of The Wind Rises Community, shared with the audience the experiences of full-time mothers trapped at home. From the initial state of being disconnected from the outside world, they slowly developed into a dialogue with the public through writing poems, and finally gained recognition from their family members and themselves.
Caring for mothers should not be a special occurrence that happens only on Mother’s Day. The society may put aside the obligations and shackles imposed on mothers due to their gender and identity, instead, their conflicted and perplexed minds should be heard.