Artist and filmmaker Tianyi Zheng returns to her ancestral village in Huangpi, Wuhan, the purported hometown of Mulan, the legendary figure known for fighting battles while disguised as a male warrior. Intimate conversations with relatives and local residents lead Zheng to trace how Mulan has been remembered or forgotten in everyday life, and her image transformed into a powerful tourism brand. Walking through tourist sites and abandoned ruins, she questions the gap between lived memory and official narrative. Things take a radical turn when performance artist Qiao Chu Guo arrives, and the film begins to contemplate Mulan through a queer lens. With documentary and performative elements, Where Comes Mulan intertwines the spectral and the personal, excavating cultural mythology while offering a deeply personal reflection on displacement, queerness, and identity.
Festival 2026
Where Comes Mulan (UK Premiere) (木蘭何處)
Multiple origins, 2026
Directed by
Tianyi Zheng
Tianyi Zheng
Running time
61 mins
61 mins
Tickets
15 May 2026, 6:30 PM
Past Event
ICA
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