Piñata

​2009, HD video, stereo, 6:45

Based on a Chinese translation of Knox’s poem by Nobel Prize winning translator Mabel Lee (Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain), Piñata blends the narrative trajectories of Marco Polo and Doctor Who to startling and entertaining effect.

Piñata manages to call into question the veracity of oral narratives, cultural purity, patriarchy, and true love, and does it all with an axe.

Long before the Barbie movie, a hot pink Tardis materialised in a field near the Silk Road. Out spilt a feminist from the future. 

Screenings/Exhibitions
Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo 21/22, 2021
Bangkok Underground Film Festival, Bangkok Biennal, LIVID (Hacktivism), 2018
Streaming Festival select 10-year highlights, The Box (Visualcontainer), Milan 2015
International Streaming Festival, The Hague 2013
Fleshed Out, Ariel Booksellers, Sydney 2011
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 2010
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Credits
Second unit director: Lindsay Webb 
Camera and stills: Matt Fatches, Maylei Hunt, Lindsay Webb 
Set: Lean Productions 
Music: Min Huifen 
Performance: Elena Knox, Teik Kim Pok, Thomas A Rivard 

Links
​Watch video
Hacktivism – 30-second remix of Piñata for Bangkok Biennial 2018