SO TO SPEAK
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SO TO SPEAK •
a new fiction film by
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
A young artist struggles to own
her sexuality.
A Filipina American college student uses art to encourage new sexualities for herself and other Asian American women.
In class with a powerful professor, Morena revisits her childhood as she experiences the stirrings of desire in coming of age.
By making a "house her sexuality," she creates the art of sex, recognizing the traumas and joys of brown girlhood. And realizes sexuality as a site of passion, power, politics, and pleasure.
She refutes, refuses and rebuts how her sexuality intertwines with servility and possession by others so as to forge different sexual futures, freedoms and autonomies.
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Synopsis
SO TO SPEAK, a coming-of-age fiction film, follows Morena’s desire to express and enjoy her freedom. Yet, others try to control her. Through artmaking, she digs into her sexual herstory, including her pivotal relationships with lovers, friends, and family.
She recognizes sexuality as both traumatic and joyful, and most importantly a site of passion, power and pleasure. Her struggle forges diverse sexual futures for herself and other Asian American women.