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7:00 pm (tentative)
Visiting Guest Speaker: Video Artist Ho Tam reports on the 1998
Tongzhi (Chinese Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual) Conference held in Hong
Kong in Febraury, with slides, discussion, and presentation of
artist's work.
9:00 pm
Documentaries: Not Simply a Wedding Banquet
Director: Mickey Lee & Ming Hsiu Chen, Taiwan, 1997, VHS, 50 min.
A new documentary about same sex marriage in Taipei. Yosheng and Ray are the first couple in Taiwan to come out publicly and have
a gay wedding. This engaging documentary chronicles their ceremony
while presenting revealing details of life for gays and lesbians
in Taiwan.
9:50 pm
My New Friends
Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan, 1995,VHS, 56 minutes
Shot for Taiwanese television, My New Friends documents the lives of two men living with HIV. Director Tsai
Ming-liang befriended the two gentleman and promised them anonymity.
The interviews are strikingly candid, covering many of the diverse
aspects of life with HIV. Too formally interesting to be mere
case studies -- each of the two sequences have lovely visual codas
-- to be mere case studies, this work is just as documentarily
rich. Marked by the care of the filmmaker and the candor of the
subjects, My New Friends allows voices to men society would deny.
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