ABSTRACT
Hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding female artists in contemporary China’, lesbian artist and filmmaker Shi Tou uses films and artworks to explore bold and intimate issues such as gender, sexuality and identity. Her films, artworks and activist practices have contributed to the formation of queer identities, communities and spaces in the PRC in the postsocialist era. Through an analysis of the representation of queer space in her 2006 film Women Fifty Minutes, this chapter discerns the construction of queer women’s identities and spaces through representational and activist practices in contemporary China. It argues that instead of simply representing queer women’s experience, the film brings queer women’s spaces and identities into existence.
