The Private Life of Fenfen
Leslie Tai
»I decided to liberate myself from the traditional modes of documentary altogether.«
– Leslie Tai
The 23-year-old Fenfen reports in her video diary on life as a migrant worker in Southern China. Using about 100 hours of this footage, Leslie Tai constructs a kind of reality TV show that is broadcast in snack bars, hair salons and small shops. Rather like mainstream TV entertainment, Fenfen’s private life elicits comments from the viewers. Sometimes, though, it just runs in the background.
Film programme Imaging an Image
Leslie Tai
Leslie Tai is a film-maker from San Francisco. She studied design and media arts at the University of California in Los Angles before moving to China in 2006. There, she studied documentary film-making with Wu Wenguang. A Fulbright scholar, she graduated from Stanford University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in documentary film & video.
Films by Leslie Tai
Grave Goods 2012 | Superior Life Classroom 2012 | Burial Shroud 2011 | Lonely Lotus 2010 | Sister Heaven Sister Earth 2009
