A re-enactment of the legend of the white serpent (白蛇传), an ancient Chinese folktale, the film traces a serpent spirit through its transformative states of gender and identity. It evolves from a formless being to a man, woman, both, and neither.
Festival 2025
The Deity Yet to Be Seen
Netherlands, 2024
ExpandedPay What You Can
Directed by
Junn Zhou
Junn Zhou
Running time
14 mins
14 mins
Tickets
11 May 2025, 4:30 PM
The Garden Cinema
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Director Bio
Junn Zhou is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher with an interdisciplinary background in development study and art design. Positioning herself as an outsider in exile, she employs trickery and cunning to navigate systems, using film, writing, divination and performance as tools for decolonial critique and practice.
Programme Information
Screening as part of Under Scales, Beyond Skin.
