Midnight Rising
NY Premiere, In-Person + Virtual
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
Streaming is available in the U.S. from 9/16 12:00 AM EDT - 9/22 11:59 PM EDT.
This film is part of Shorts: Love Letters To You program.
Director Aileen Ye
Country UK, The Netherlands
Year 2024
Languages English
Genre Non-fiction
Running Time 8 min
Stepping onto the dance floor, we are invited to move and witness a space that extends beyond raving, extravagance and hyperpop to offer a necessary platform for love, acceptance and most importantly, joy.
The film features stories of those that have been boldly amplifying artists and creating moments of movement across the city, all intertwined by their deep love of music - Eastern Margins, a music label and collective that celebrates alternative East and South East Asian culture and diaspora, and GGI (kor: 끼), London’s only rave for queer, trans and nonbinary East and South East Asian people.
Shorts: Love Letters To You Screening + Q&A
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
The venue is wheelchair-accessible and has an all-gender bathroom. Live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be available. If you have any other questions, check out the FAQ page.
Tickets/Passes
Tickets
Regular (In-person): $16 ticket + $1.39 processing fee
Suggested* (In-person): $25 ticket + $1.62 processing fee
Regular (Virtual): $8 ticket + $1.19 processing fee
Suggested* (Virtual): $16 ticket + $1.39 processing fee
Festival Pass
PrideFull Pass: $54 pass + $3.34 processing fee
Virtual Pass: $24 pass + $2.59 processing fee
Purchasing the Suggested ticket helps us cover the costs and sustain this film festival by and for Queer and Trans People Of Color. Thank you!
Director's Statement
For the past few years, I’ve been seeking East and South East Asian centred spaces and communities. Not just for stories, but also for my own respite from daily life.
Finding space, connection, forging joy and memories, are what brought me to these topics, in search of communities and stories which bond the Asian diasporic experience. For so long, the younger generations have been scattered, without many spaces to connect or find each other.
Hidden in pockets of London, this film showcases a different side to the Asian community not commonly known to audiences, or even ourselves. No one really knows the political and eccentric aspects of this Asian generation’s underground club scene. With this film, I wanted to explore the new sounds and discover what it is that brings so many different sub- communities together to one space - the club. Fashion, music, queerness take on new definitions and embodiments in this space.
What these Asian club collectives have put together is not only rare in terms of line-up, but also community. What exists in this space is more than just ‘raving’ from pressures of daily life, but ecstatic liberation and new-found families.
Director's Bio
