I just arrived in Beijing at Renmin University where I will give a talk about animation fans and how they use alter egos and virtual siblings, or even entire imagined clans and families. I want to find out how and why they fantasize about alternative families and how they deal with pressures of the bio-family. But what are the first impressions [...]
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Clay Shirky once wrote a long time ago that reading blogs is like wandering around at a cocktail party and eavesdropping on various conversations. Some scenes from the may 8 party. My students were in a state of happy inebriation and wanted to act like my children. It was midnight and turning into Mothers Day. And here below my [...]
I was just thinking that this blog may need a man, a male presence, or a male subject. Some people had already pointed it out to me and yes I agreed time to look for a male. I had already met Gerrie Lim a couple of times and knew that he had written several ground-breaking books [...]
Siu Ding agreed to be interviewed on January 10 in my small apartment with view onto the grand city. I try to understand people’s personalities by the way they go stand on my balcony and the awe they receive. Siu Ding immediately spent some time there and took a range of pictures with her polaroid [...]
Venus is a student at Hong Kong University and was introduced to me by our common friend Shyla. First Venus started helping me with my research and generally showed enthusiasm for my projects and personality. Now we have evolved and can chat with each other in the dark morning hours or late at night, and [...]
Raw Data – A Real Fake Document about Sex Researchers and their Hunting in Hong Kong. Click the picture for the trailer: Raw Data is a short experimental fiction film that grew out of my research about Internet sex and collaborations with actors/actresses. Summary Dr. Nero Wong is famous amongst university students for his critiques [...]
Yang Jing in RAW DATA as Butterfly, a bored graduate student who develops the alter ego of a dominant and adulterous married woman, Mrs Fleur Chan.
My Japanese doll complex movie is playing in a film program about ‘Cosplay,’ (costume play or animation and J-rock fans who dress like their favorite characters) organized by the Urban Nomad Festival Let me confess right here that my movie would have been a flop without the support of Sean Hsiao, who introduced me to [...]
The new issue of Intersections on Yaoi, Boys Love, or gay animations for girls, is out, and it is called ‘Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers,’ guest-edited by Mark McLelland. I am very grateful to Mark McLelland and Carolyn Brewer for including my documentary On The Japanese Doll Complex. It fulfills a long-awaited desire to [...]
