Tinghe Zhang
About
Tinghe Zhang is an artist, animator and rock musician from China. She is dedicated to exploring the connection between animation, rock music and real-life social issues.
Her work is based on video, stylized 3D animation, audiovisual art and rock music, and she discusses gender violence/women’s issues/underground culture in the music scene in relation to her own experiences.
GRRRL ! is a stylized 3D short film about the fictional town of Ash, where women’s voices are banned by the government through draconian decrees. The protagonists and the rebels use modified broadcasting equipment, poster networks and underground performances to transmit their ideas and fight against wiretapping and repression. The women falsify information to induce the police to search fake venues, while secretly completing their performances in real venues, culminating in giant banners proclaiming the continuation of the awakening and resistance.
With RIOT GRRRL as its theme, the film aims to discuss the suppression of women’s rights in the real society through animation, explore the issue of gender equality, call for breaking the silence and discipline, and call for women to refuse “self-censorship”, to rebel, to fight.
It’s all about speaking what’s unspoken,screaming what’s unspoken.
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