“I can’t help you with your film because people just want a gay film or lesbian film, and this mixture of sexuality in your film is just not going anywhere.”
– Taiwanese-American filmmaker and pioneering internet artist
Shu Lea Cheang, citing a frustrated distribution agent’s rejection of her gender-fluid sci-fi cinema. “My films have always been diversely queer, in terms of race, gender and sexuality,” Cheang explains. “I was known for gender-hacking and genre-bending.”
