WOULDN’T MAKE IT ANY OTHER WAY

在美国中西部的一个小镇建立了丰富多彩的酷儿生活后，一个有抱负的服装设计师回到了TA的家乡关岛，为一部儿童剧目制作演出服装，并与疏远的父母重新建立联系。

Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre and reconnect with distanced parents.

导演：周豪
编剧：无
主演：无
制片人：泰勒·希尔
摄影：周豪
类型：纪录短片
时长：21分钟
完成时间：2024年
对白语言：英语
地区：美国
制片公司：无

Director: Hao Zhou
Screenwriter: None
Cast: None
Producer: Tyler Hill
Cinematographer: Hao Zhou
Genre: Documentary short film
Length: 21 min
Year: 2024
Dialogue: English
Region: USA
Production Company: None

周豪是一位来自中国西南地区的电影制作人，关注酷儿和女权主义主题。他的电影作品包括《夜》（2014年柏林全景单元）和多部短片作品，曾在SXSW、洛迦诺、香港、Hot Docs、BFI Flare等国际电影节上展映。

Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China, focusing on queer and feminist themes. Zhou’s films include THE NIGHT (Berlinale Panorama, 2014) and multiple shorts that have screened at SXSW, Locarno, Hot Docs, HongKong IFF, BFI Flare, and others.

作为一个从中国西南部到美国中西部的酷儿移民，我在这部纪录片中感受到许多和自我生活的相似之处。“别无它法”反映了劳工在流动和迁移中拥有快乐的过程。这部纪录片的拍摄地点是美国两个截然不同的地方：农村地区的爱荷华州和偏远太平洋上的关岛。身为一个酷儿创作者，如同记录片里的主角，在TA的家乡面临着一系列有限的选择，所以TA选择了在别处追求想要的生活——其中有快乐，但也有与人在他乡、收入不稳定、家庭束缚和自我的烦恼交织在一起的紧张情景。

As a queer immigrant from the Chinese hinterland to the U.S. Midwest, I feel many parallels to my own life within this documentary. “Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way” reflects the flows of labor and an attempt to recover joy despite this circumstance. The documentary’s locations are two distinct parts of the United States: the rural state of Iowa and the remote Micronesian island of Guam. A queer creative, such as the film’s protagonist, faces a bounded set of options in their homeland, and so they have pursued a vision elsewhere—a life that is joyful but marked by intertwined tensions with place, economic forces, family, and self.