The Gay Critic

2015 · 26 min

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The film shares intimate moments of friendships, in between time for various forms of labour, with groups of men amidst urban infrastructures in Chengdu, Sichuan. The working group whose stories the filmmaker’s father identifies strongly with, are engaged through the songs of vocaloid singer Oliver, narrating excerpts of Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, while omitting symbolic enunciation. Accompanied by friends and families’ journeys through parts of Portugal, the filmic time extends into life forces who emerge on site and are already apart of.

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