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Space of Desire

Scottish police detective and his alleged fatal affair with a young Chinese man. This sets off an investigation that threatens to rock the moral foundation of the Hong Kong Law Enforcement and Justice Department in the 1980s. Filmmaker David Chow takes us into the lives of present-day Hong Kong gay men to reveal their hidden aspirations and desires. He tracks down gay couples, a lovelorn painter, a taxi driver, activists, radical politicians, sociologists, sexologists, philosophers, and political analysts.Filming in pick-up joints, bars and saunas, he reveals a gay community forced underground by marginalization, criminalization, and discrimination. Chow uncovers how the conservative Hong Kong establishment is reluctant to improve the rights of the local gay community.

Space of Desire

NR 2009
PROSTITUTES IN THE YEARS PAST - SHAU TAO

SHAU Tao is a talented and self respecting prostitute as described in ancient Chinese literature, born in the Tang dynasty - a period in Chinese history known for it\'s open attitude toward women. Nevertheless, even in a period like this, it is still men who control the fate of womankind. During that period, the celebrated poet, YU Jen falls for charms of SHAU Tao. However in the long run, he still does not wish to marry her due to her social status. Having a very high esteem for herself, SHAU Tao prefers to remain single for the rest of her life rather than make sacrifice to accommodate such a situation. The plot switches back and forth from the letters sent between SHAU Tao and YU Jen\'s wife. The film reveals an undercurrent of a homoerotic relationship and the subtle relationship between three of them.

PROSTITUTES IN THE YEARS PAST - SHAU TAO

NR 2001
End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors

End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors (2022) is a video (machinima) essay on the historical fragments of Montana and Native American history. Going deep into the American soil conveyed in the video game Far Car 5 (2018), the work manifests the juxtaposition between religious survivalism on the nuclear threat and End Time, the digital landscape and archive of Montana, and the historical records and testimonies of Native American’s history and movement. This intersection can be conceived as a detour in thinking and questioning the universal issues on colonization, land, race, violence and the appropriation of culture and history in the video game.

End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors

NR 2022