Director Wu Tsang featured in T Magazine's 12 for 2012

Photo by Graeme Mitchell

Wu TSANG The personal films and video installations created by the artist Wu Tsang explore issues of transgender identity and have been shown at MoMA, where ‘‘Wildness’’ will screen on Dec. 16, and as part of both the 2012 Whitney Biennial and 2012 New Museum Triennial. (Tsang was the only artist to appear in both prestigious surveys.) Tsang identifies as transfeminine, which carries plenty of complicated social and political meaning. And he happens to look fierce in a dress.

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LA Times feature on Wildness & Wu Tsang

(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

The collision of the two undergrounds — and the unintended consequences of the party's growing popularity — is chronicled in a documentary by Tsang that plays at Outfest on Saturday, July 21. The Silver Platter, with its glittering drapes and sultry pink lights, is the unmistakable star of the film, also called "Wildness." Voiced by a transgender actress from Guatemala, the bar literally speaks, whispering about the generations of gays who have found sanctuary there, away "from the ignorance, the fear and hatred of the outside world." Read More

Wu Tsang interview for LA Record

(christina von messling)

When Wu Tsang and friends started Wildness, a party and performance night at the Silver Platter in MacArthur Park, they had no idea that in a very short space of time it would become something that everyone was talking about, find itself at the center of an ongoing debate about gentrification, and then cease to be entirely. Now a few years later, Tsang has finished directing a magical realist documentary called Wildness that tells the story not just of a weekly Tuesday night party, but also the story of a neighborhood, a bar, and the people who were part of it. Charles Mallison revisits Wu Tsang now that Wildness is showing in Los Angeles. Read More

Director Wu Tsang named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces

Wu Tsang. Wu Tsang impacted both the film and art worlds this year with Wildness, a politically questioning, playfully engaging portrait of the Los Angeles trans bar Silver Platter. The feature played MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, Hot Docs, SXSW and Outfest, while an installation version showed at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. —IndieWire

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/people/wu-tsang/

Director Wu Tsang featured in OUTFEST's Five in Focus

In its Five in Focus series, Outfest spotlights a quintet of exciting new talent behind the camera and on the big screen. The 2012 selections include: Alicia Luz Rodríguez (Actress, “Young & Wild”), Wu Tsang (Filmmaker, “Wildness”), Sally El Hosaini (Writer/Director, “My Brother the Devil”), Matthew Wilkas (Actor, “Gayby”) and Michael Marius Pessah (Cinematographer, “Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean”).

http://www.outfest.org/fest2012/festival-overview.html