The B&W 16 mm film Shut Up White Boy from 2002 is a collective production by artist and filmmaker Vũ T. Thu Hà and a group of queer Asian American dykes and queers. The antiracist revenge film emerged from queer rage, anarchism and desire in resistance to anti-Asian racism and toxic white masculinity.
On occasion of Vũ T. Thu Hà's and co-creator and musician Leslie Shih Shu Mah's visit to Berlin in October, we celebrate their badass queer world-making and connect their work to forms of protest and collectivity within Berlin's fabric of solidarity. The film screening will be embedded in conversations and fragmentary responses drawn from artistic and political practices to feel out resonances with Shut Up White Boy.
The riso-print zine Shut Up White Boy edited by Nhà Sàn Collective and Suza Husse for the nomadic video art platform D'EST is available at the gathering and, as of this month, as an e-publication with EECLECTIC as part of the publication seriesPOSTOST.
PROGRAM
19:00-19:15
Welcome
by DAMN*, Korea Verband, Cãi Lại Collective, district * school without center and casinooo
19:15-19:30 Shut Up White Boy (2002)
B/W 16 mm film by Vũ T. Thu Hà
19:30-20:15
Conversations, fragmentary responses & zines I
Hands Off ĐXC: Archives
a document of resistance emerging from the Vietnamese community
bHands Off ĐXC: Archives
Conversation with Vũ T. Thu Hà and Leslie Shih Shu Mah
moderated by Aziza Ahmad, Jinran Ha & Suza Husse
continuing on from Shut Up White Boy zine for D'EST
維歲次 / 尙饗 — Rituals of Care for the Wild (2026)
a performative ritual fragment by Jinran Ha
Reflection and Questions: Visibilities and empowerment
Response to SUWB by Shilong Zhang, Korea Verband
20:15-20:30 Shut Up White Boy (2002)
B/W 16 mm film by Vũ T. Thu Hà
20:30-21:00
Conversations, fragmentary responses & zines II
Stars in the Sky of Palestine
Zine presentation
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2003)
Documentary by Tracy Flannigan, introduced by LeslieShih Shu Mah, Tribe 8 (excerpt)
MÜDE (2021) & This Space In Between (2023)
performance fragments by Kallia Kefala
ACCESSIBILITY
* Entrance by donation, suggested amount 5-15. All donations go to the filmmakers. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
~ The entrance and bar are wheelchair accessible. The toilet unfortunately is not.
* This is a masked event. All attendees are requested to wear an FFP2 mask for the safety of contributors and audience members with health vulnerabilities. Masks will also be made available at the entrance.
