4. Misuko
Misuko is a movement, set design, and costume design piece created in collaboration with the director Cosmo Kong. It is inspired by feminism and anti-colonialism.
In the introduction of the Second Sex, De Beauvoir wrote “He is the Subject; he is the Absolut. she is the Other”. Woman is defined in relation to man. The four stages of the ego in this short film depicts 1) The Innocent Girl – a child grappling with feelings of inadequacy, sensing she is inherently "defective." 2) The Realization – awakening to the constraints and discipline imposed by a patriarchal society. 3) The Investigator – questioning and analyzing the structures of power that uphold these systems. And 4) the Enlightened Consoler – a figure who, having reached understanding, seeks to guide and illuminate others. Those four egos are developed subconsciously within a dream. Misuko woke up at the end.
Misuko is a piece about women and people in oppression who are being defined-in-relation to. The cathartic, primitive, and erotic movements is the violence of the oppressed against the oppressors. Only in the such movement, the aggression from being oppressed can be calmed down.