A series of short films and artist moving images that work intimately and unapologetically with and through stereotypical elements of racialised East and South East Asian media, leading to lubricious slippages and unexpected relationships between the filmmakers and the motifs they consort with. It’s like chancing upon a seedy late-night cinema hall only to find the films they show to be uncanny subversions of the usual classics, where even the cliché perverse finds itself perverted further more.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with artist-curator Bart Seng Wen Long.
Dikit
A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When the new couple in town moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one.
dir. Gabriela Serrano | Philippines | 2021 |16min
Out in the World
A latex-clad fetish object performs for groups of Chinese-restaurant patrons, who can’t help but perform their adoration in similarly amusing fashion.
dir. Bart Seng Wen Long | Singapore | 2022 |9min
Boy-Taste
In an esoteric temple, grown men return to their boyhood and play innocently.
dir. Michio Okabe | Japan | 1973 |12min
I shudder with pleasure that at last the time has come
A secret lies untouched in this mythical chamber outside of the world’s reach — could the pain-ridden love between a Mistress and a beautiful young man reveal it all?
dir. Mari Terashima | Japan | 2022 |27min
Sexy Sushi
A sushi's rude awakening to the true meaning of his life.
dir. Calleen Koh | Singapore | 2021 |3min
Super Taboo
Based on a pornographic book from the 1980s, Su’s immersive video work brings frozen tableaux of a forest orgy to life.
dir. Su Hui-Yu | Taiwan | 2017 |18min