Trace on My Body
Director: YUE Hua
China, United States, 2024, 4 min
Shooting Format:16mm
Festival Year:2025
Category:Experimental
Genres:Female, Personal, Experimental
Crew:Yue Hua. Yanghuixiao Gao
Email:yvetteyhua@gmail.com
Synopsis
A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything belongs to my body.
Shoot and direct animation on 16mm film.
Content warning: Nudity
Trailer
About the director
Yue Hua(she/her) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who uses analog film, expanded cinema, and digital media to explore cross-culture identity(Chinese-American), language, and female experience from a personal lens. Her work, often incorporating personal narratives, cultural background, dismantles traditional roles and empowers women through visual storytelling.
Her films and performances have been featured internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Revolution Per Minute Film Festivals, International Art Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop Channel, Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Baocheng Screening at Art Village, and Shanghai International Short Week. Her paintings and installation artwork have been exhibited in 上山下乡 in China, and her multi-projection performance has been performed in Emerson Contemporary Media Gallery.
Yue holds a BFA from the China Academy of Art, majoring in film and television production, and an MFA in Film and Media Arts at Emerson College. Yue is a recipient of the UFVA Carole Fielding Grant, Emerging Artist Award from RPM Festival, New England Local Filmmaker Award, Emerson Enhancement Fund, and Patchwork: Film x Poetry interdisciplinary arts Fellowship, and has served as a teaching fellow at Emerson College and Boston University.