film stills © Shen Xin

Snow Country

digital video, 18:24, 2013

Snow Country engages with the representation of trauma through cinematic space, more specifically, the trauma of women being violated as individuals, and as the victims of Second World War. Comfort women are the term given to the women who were involved in the systematic structure of sexual slavery created by the Japanese military. The film was shot in Norway and Sweden, resonating with Yasunari Kawabata’s novel with the same title.

Cinematographer, Editor: Shen Xin

With special thanks to Hiroko Nakajima, Hedda Roterud Amundsen, Ava Tan and Alexis Noakes