Release Date
01 Jan, 1995
Runtime
00:56: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Original Title
我新认识的朋友
Photos
Tsai Ming-liang
Lee Kang-sheng
Pearlly Chua