Scars on Memory
Director：Mickey Chen
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Running Time：54 mins
Region：Tanwan China
Year：2005
Language：Chinese
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SYNOPSIS
《Scars on Memory》 is Taiwanese queer documantarist Mickey Chen’s soothing and melancholy epilogue of his queer trilogy, which includes the famous 《Boys for Beauty》 in 1999 and that somehow controversial lesbian piece 《Memorandum on Happiness》 in 2003.
In 《Scars on Memory》, Mickey Chen parallels and interweaves two gay love stories in a pretty diaspora and literary way. Continuing his thematic focus on constructing generational perception and visibility of Taiwanese gay population, this time Mickey Chen brings on two fabulous and vivid ‘gay senior citizens’–Madame Yu and Auntie Jiang. The two sad and touching love stories are told and remembered by Madame Yu and Auntie Jiang in a hilarious but also teary atmosphere.
Most significant of all, this documentary creates the infinite and indefinite aroma similar to 《Flowers of Shanghai》.
Beholders would perhaps forget about the numerous names, faces, words in this film, but the profound and tender love for the dead and the begones would never be forgotten.
Director Biography
<div>Bio-filmography of Mickey Chen</div><div>Mickey Chen is persistently making documentaries on queer and gender issues in Taiwan. He also participates in street protests and believes that making documentaries can be an activist endeavor for social reform. He started shooting his first doc《Not Simply a Wedding Banquet》 in 1996 and his works circulate in gay and lesbian, Asian-American, and international documentary film festivals. In 1999, his 《Boys for Beauty》daringly went on theatrical release in Taipei and got great box office credit. Thus he won the Independent Spirit Award in 1999 Taipei Film Festival. Then he spent years investigating on a murder case of a sissy boy bullied in junior high school in the South of Taiwan. In 2003,《Memorandum on Happiness》 chronicled the dramatic break-up and surprising domestic violence between a lesbian couple. His latest piece《Scars on Memory》 marks Mickey Chen’s first decade in making queer documentaries in Taiwan.</div>
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