Film review · Full text
What If Everything Gets Better After One Child Disappears? — Bad Apples
On exclusion, care, coercion, and the troubling moment when a wrong decision makes a system work better.
Read reviewFilm research · criticism · cultural work
I write across Chinese, English, and German on cinema, gender, violence, and the politics of looking.

02 / Research
Dissertationsprojekt · in Arbeit
Mein Dissertationsprojekt untersucht die Konstruktion und Subjektivität von Frauen, die in Kriminalfilmen der sogenannten Sechsten Generation Chinas töten.
Anstatt Gewalthandeln vorschnell mit Handlungsmacht gleichzusetzen, fragt die Arbeit, wie Narration, Bildgestaltung, Genre und Festivalrezeption darüber entscheiden, ob eine Frau als Subjekt erscheint – oder als neues Objekt der Faszination.
03 / Writing
Film criticism & personal reflections
Film reviews and notes from exhibitions, in Chinese, English, and German.
Film review · Full text
On exclusion, care, coercion, and the troubling moment when a wrong decision makes a system work better.
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Why does Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma make violence look so fake while desire feels so real?
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从一个长期离家的儿子回到福建开始,讨论家庭照护如何被分配、父权暴力如何留在记忆中,以及迟来的看见为何不能等同于和解。
阅读影评Filmkritik · Volltext
Über drei Frauen zwischen Widerstand, Überleben und Verstrickung – und darüber, wie Krieg, Sprache und Kamera weibliche Identität festschreiben.
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On the Trojan War, Odysseus’s long journey home, and the time his family lost.
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Über Seenotrettung, den räumlichen Kontrast zwischen Hamburg und dem Mittelmeer und die Restwellen einer Krisenerfahrung im Alltag.
Filmkritik lesenAusstellungsnotiz · Volltext
Über meine Reaktion vor den Bildern, Lassnigs Körpergefühl und den Blick auf Frauen.
Notiz lesen04 / Projects
Film culture in practice
Alongside writing, I work on film festivals, workshops, and community programmes—spaces where films can be encountered and discussed collectively.
Festival work
Programming, film selection, screening coordination, and audience-facing communication for Chinese independent cinema in Hamburg.
Ongoing · Hamburg
Workshop · 08–11 Oct 2026
Co-organising a four-day, practice-based workshop on observation, ethics, chance, and the encounter with reality.
Concept · Coordination · Communications
Community cultural work
Collaborative screenings, reading groups, and conversations that create room for sustained exchange beyond formal institutions.
Screenings · Reading · Discussion
05 / About
Based in Hamburg
I am a film researcher, writer, and cultural project organiser based in Hamburg, with a focus on Chinese and East Asian cinema.
I hold an MA in Literature and Media from the University of Bamberg. My doctoral project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Glasenapp and is affiliated with the Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (BaGraLCM). I am currently returning to research in East Asian film studies.
Alongside my research and writing, I organise and contribute to film-cultural projects in Hamburg, including the Chinese Film Festival Hamburg, 706 Hamburger, and the Observational Cinema workshop with Kazuhiro Soda.
06 / Contact
Research exchange · editorial work · collaboration
I welcome conversations with researchers, editors, film and cultural organisations, and collaborators across disciplines.
zjw.connie@gmail.comCV available on request.