my new film Sympathy for the Devil is currently on view in my show “forgive everything” at @nightgallery 🤓 link to watch online in my bio trailer in slide 2 Named for the Rolling Stones song around which Godard’s 1968 film One Plus One is based, Ouyang’s new single channel film Sympathy for the Devil follows an extended conversation between Ouyang and their mother. The work opens with Ouyang asking their mother, Lilly, about when she met the Rolling Stones while waitressing in Chicago, but their exchange evolves into an inquiry about the conditions of Lilly’s upbringing in and emigration from China. In the same year that Godard—a white, male Marxist—makes his film about the Rolling Stones in Europe, Ouyang’s mother in Maoist China lives the material realities of communism. Lilly’s answers are shrouded in a reluctance to divulge; what occurs between mother and child is a rewriting of personal history in real time. Many things cannot be reconciled: a parent’s secrecy, uneven political ideology, the provocative distortions of Western idealism. camera @alicia_afshar @lance.i music @dorothycarlos @house.of.joyyy and moi starring my indomitable, complicated mommy and me 🥰