Do you want to see me do the striptease too? – dir. Jingxuan XU

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Do you want to see me do the striptease too?

Director’s Name: Jingxuan XU

Writer’s Name: Jingxuan XU

Producer: Jingxuan XU

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: France

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 11 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

In a neon-slivered hotel room, a man sets his trap: cameras hidden behind wine glasses, measured lingerie hung like equations. When he leaves, a woman enters. She adjusts his lenses to frame the empty bed, then performs a calculated striptease for the surveillance feed.

As her dance ends, she removes his cameras and installs her own. The arrival of his next target ruptures the room’s fragile geometry. Blood blooms off-screen while lenses multiply—his predatory gaze replaced by her surgical observation.

When she finally packs his original device into her case, we see it now holds a collection of cameras, each bearing traces of viewer fingerprints. The cycle’s true subject emerges: not the hunt, but the eyes queuing to consume it.