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The title word joke shows that this should be looked at askance. It is indeed all about a somewhat disturbed perception of reality, even though we are looking through the glasses of an inhabitant of Los Angeles who couples a homosexual nature with an Asiatic origin. Pumping music and an easternising reference to a ‘jade flute’ drop us ‘in medias res’: a circle left open in the image shows an ejaculation. Ming extensively illustrates this specific subculture in three chapters. PORNOGRAPHY shows erotic kung fu, rows of books and video cassettes, special telephone numbers and, surprisingly, a series of people who confide in us their romantic desires, while a mini monitor on the table shows hard core pornography. In ‘Bekentenissen van een pornokijker #1’ a white man talks nasally about his often disappointing fascination for Chinese actors because they don’t exude any fun. In ‘#2’ a woman talks about the advantage of being able just to look at men. DOCUMENTARY shows talking heads about contacts and techniques, SM and HIV, intercut with men tumbling in the ocean. Statistical details about AIDS can be heard with a pink filmed screw in a hotel room. CULINAIRE GENOEGENS combines the caressing gestures with which a TV chef stuffs a chicken with a technical discourse about pricks and condoms. The audience applauds.
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Erik Daams
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Camera Pablo Bautista, Justin Chin, Quentin Lee and others, Editing Ming-Yen S. Ma, Wayne Jung, With Vicente Golveo, Napoleon Lustre, Quentin Lee, Hoang Nguyen, Han Ong, Dean Sameshima and others, Voice Ming-Yen S. Ma, Laura U. Marks, Alex Waddington, Winston Xin and others
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