Shae Xu

Birth : 1989-10-28, Shanghai, China

History

Born in 1989, Shae Xu is a Chinese filmmaker based in New York and Shanghai. Her photos and experimental videos have been exhibited in gallery spaces, including a solo project in the Art Pavilion of the MoCA Shanghai. Xu’s narrative works unveil a feminist’s concern in a fast-growing world; her short films were screened in the China Independent Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, Urbanworld Film Festival and NewFest the New York LGBT Film Festival. Xu is currently working on her first feature film Yellow Plum Rain.

Movies

Duet
Duet
Director
In this sensual and dream-like film, an unspoken romance inevitably resurfaces when a high school music teacher meets an old colleague again and decides to perform together for the first time as piano duet partners after they’ve long since drifted apart from each other.
Down Dog
Down Dog
Director
In the two weeks they've known one another, yoga instructor Tammy hasn't had a chance to talk to Marcus about her trans experience. Does she have to? A question considered by thousands of transgender people daily.
Hudson
Hudson
Writer
A woman tries to tell her teenaged son that she and her friend are romantically involved.
Hudson
Hudson
Director
A woman tries to tell her teenaged son that she and her friend are romantically involved.