Wu Tsang

Wu Tsang is a filmmaker, artist and performer based in Los Angeles. Her work is concerned with queer and trans community and community-practices.

Tsang's feature documentary, Wildness, documents the Los Angeles trans bar "Silver Platter". Wu Tsang directed and produced the film. It was co-written with Roya Rastegar. The film was premiered at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight in New York and has been screened at festivals in Canada, the US, and Chile. Since 1963, "Silver Platter" has been a historic bar that patronised by a predominantly Latin LGBT community. Wildness documents what happens when a group of young artists host a weekly performance night at the bar. Documenting the collision between the two LGBT communities, the film poses questions about community, space, and ownership. In an interview, Tsang describes how her film represents a number of people are often stereotyped (trans people, people of colour, and queer communities) and she experiments with how to be accountable to the communities that she documents.

Wu Tsang's short films include:

In a 2014 interview, Tsang states, "For me performance is like research; lived experience is fundamental. I have to do these things to understand or have any critical analysis. I’ve never been someone who’s going to stay behind the camera and observe. I don’t perform onstage that often, but when I do it’s often part of a process—it’s a way of thinking through things."

In 2012, Tsang was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film". At Outfest 2012, Wildness won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary. Also in 2012, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial and the New Museum Triennial. In 2014, she was included in the Hammer Museum's 2014 "Made in L.A." biennial.

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