Mary Myself (2013)

This short animated documentary tells the story of 2 Chinese Canadian women making their theatrical debut playing comfort women in Eve Enslers The Vagina Monologues Jia Tsu Thompson and Mary Mohammed spend long hours rehearsing at Mu Lan Teahouse in Halifax where they read their lines over and over sip tea and recount buried stories of war As they diligently practise together and at home they come to have their own personal catharses Fusing activism and performance the film honours the thousands of girls and women from Korea China Japan and the Philippines who were forced into sexual slaveryinto providing comfort to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese military during the 1930s and 40s