慾望之空間

姑勿論你是患上恐同症，還是同志社群活躍症；不論你對香港同志了解多少，又或是渴望認識多些少，進入「慾望之空間」必定叫你得到無比滿足。
一切還是因為麥樂倫之謎，狄雲秋透過虛擬加紀實還有動畫，帶領觀眾看盡香港同志千百態：桑拿是否真的無真愛？出櫃少年遇上壯男歷險記、愛女愛男少女如何求愛？的士司機眼中的同志世界、七一同志齊上街、學者政界人物社團份子齊發聲……全靠你我他同心合力建構了一個與別不同的港人同志文化，令你看得有站起來的衝動。

Synopsis:
Inspired by a real life unsolved murder mysteries of McLennan, a Scottish police inspector when his scandalous affair with a young Chinese man in Hong Kong during the 80’s. David Chow takes us into the lives of current day gay men to reveal their forbidden desires.
Mixing facts with fictions, to uncover how conservative establishment of Hong Kong is reluctantly to improve the rights of local gay community while other nations have the will and courage to. Will the changing political landscape holds the key to a better future for LGBT? Come see what gay activists, academics, politicians, manly taxi driver, bi-sexual, transgender have to say and who really kill McLennan?

我尝试在纪录片的形式中，给真实人物加入一些虚构成分。其实对我来说，很难来给我的电影下一个准确的定义。但是在这部电影中，我用一种比喻的方式让我们知道，其实现实中的事实不一定就是我们眼见耳听得事实。这部电影包含了一些我们的政府告诉我们的关于一桩谋杀案的真相，但是证据却又让我们有所迟疑。
同志这个问题比生活中关于爱情和欲望的问题更难解决。在电影中，我没有给出答案，只是在观众中引起更多的疑问，这样才能让他们自己找出他们理解的现实和事实，这样才能让他们做出那些可以改变现实社会的选择。
这部电影已经得到了同志团体的关注，电影会公映两场，到目前为止大约百分之九十的票已经预售出去了。我们已经计划在06年增加场次以满足需求。

Director’s Statement:
Space of Desire began as a short experimental video project back in 2003 filmed around a real life Gay Canadian Chinese Photographer/Artist Norm Yip who’s still struggling with revealing his true gay identity to his widowed mother.
I had met Norm during his Art Drawing exhibition earlier in 2000. I had no knowledge of his gay identity or HK’s hidden gay community. I was quite aware of the gay issues when I grew up in Canada’s more open, liberal and tolerant society. I began making short films seriously as an independent filmmaker back in 1995 after moving to Vancouver from Ottawa where I grew up most. I studied filmmaking briefly at University of Toronto and dropped out to become a carpenter for number of years. I returned to HK to do research for a film project and ended up staying here. In 2002, one of my documentary short, YM:Yeung Ming took the 8th IFVA Open Category Jury Special Award.
The project with Norm came to a haul as an unfinished short video with an open ending called Temptations, which also screened at the HKLGFF in 2003. Soon after, the project started a life of it’s own and began to evolve into something of an investigation into HK’s gay community and the issues that they’re struggling with… include interviews of other members from and outside the gay community dealing gay marriage rights, legal protections and the larger issue of human rights.
Every film project to me began as an experiment and soon I began to play with the conventions of the documentary form and threw in some fictional elements with the real life characters. It’s rather difficult for me to analyst my own films… but somehow, in this case, it seems to act as an metaphor to explore what we see and hear in life as true may not be the real truth in reality. And what is reality? The film contains a murder mysteries that we’re told what’s the truth from our government but yet the evidences indicate that there can lead to other speculations.
So the gay issues are way more complex and difficult to resolve as many things in life such as love and desire. In the film, I posed no real answers but try to raise more questions among the audience, in order for them to formulate their own version of reality and truth and to be aware of their own point of views and the choices that they can make and that can affect the society as a whole.
The film has already attracted a lot of attention from the community, as 90% of the advance tickets of the 2 screenings at the HKLGFF are pre-sold as of writing. We are already planning more additional screening in January 2006 at the Broadway Cinematheque due to the overwhelming demand.

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