The Pink Detachment

The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge . The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form . And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.

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The Pink Detachment regisserades av Jen Liu. I rollerna ses bland andra Katharine Liu, Mayu Oguri, Corey Tazmania och Isabelle Zufferey Boulton.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 20 minuter är The Pink Detachment en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa The Pink Detachment i Sverige.