Poetic License: The Tinted Bloom
Transforming a spectrum of complex emotions into visual metaphors, director Candice Lo carries the poignant poetry of Taiwanese female activist Victoria Hwang into experimental short The Tinted Bloom – translating Hwang’s experiences as a survivor of sexual assault.
Unfolding over three poems – Tinted, Exist, and Nameless, The Tinted Bloom reflects the weight of significant events and the shift towards resilience that redirects Hwang’s story, addressing the gradual process of living, accepting and overcoming trauma. Deconstructing her past, and the impact of cultural attitudes in Taiwan, Hwang’s verses take viewers on an intimate passage through guilt, realization, and empowerment, while exploring how moving to New York City altered her public identity and self-perception.
With the flower as a recurring symbol of youth, joy, and hope – at first suffocated, then emerging from the dirt as the journey evolves – Lo develops a distinct visual language contrasting darkness and optimism, memory and the present – in which Hwang’s words become a powerful emblem of emotional growth, and moving forward in spite of the past.
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