My Heart, (On)Unlock is a documentary that follows Otome game players in China who transform parasocial digital romances into real-life performances, enacting and unraveling heterosexuality. Through scripted intimacy, love emerges as a constructed yet deeply felt illusion, revealing a form of femininity that becomes unstable through its own awareness of the roles it performs.
Festival 2026
My Heart, (On)Unlock
China, 2025
Directed by
Vivi Zhu
Vivi Zhu
Running time
16 mins
16 mins
Tickets
3 May 2026, 1:30 PM
Museum of the Home
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Director Bio
Vivi Zhu is a Chinese-born, Tokyo-based artist and filmmaker. Her work examines the relationship between migration, pleasure, and performativity, often employing play, subversion, and participatory methods to interrogate power structures rooted in colonial and capitalist systems. Her work has been broadcast on NHK Japan, Al Jazeera Witness, Vice Media and Sixthtone.