Lesbians from two different generations in Hong Kong talk about desire, growing up and family issues in this short documentary. Both discuss in front of the camera issues of sex, coming out, sexual identification, etc. Through borrowing examples from lesbian icons from pop culture, including film excerpts of the famous female Cantonese opera star, Pak Suet-sin ––widely known to have shared a life-long partnership with another female Opera star Yam Kim-fai, the piece points to a rich and long tradition of lesbian culture in this society.

香港女同志如何面對成長、朋友、家庭、如何「看待」與創造自己的語言文化？ 這部為當時香港藝術中心「窮風流」節而拍的錄像，企圖把我們生活的日常瑣碎放到普及文化的女同志脈絡中，從而探索私人與公眾的對話，讓朋友述說她們的故事，當中包括性認同、與家人的關係、「出櫃」等議題。這些都是我自己少年時渴望可以看到的映像，離開香港九年後，1999年回流時決定自己製造出來。

Hong Kong writer and media artist. Born in Hong Kong, Yau Ching is known as a scholar, poet, and film/video artist. While managing her multiple identities, she has been making socially engaged work for more than three decades. She has authored more than thirteen books, including award-winning poetry collections, and produced and directed more than ten films/videos. She studied in Hong Kong, New York and London, and has taught in Hong Kong, Michigan and Taiwan. She has also been actively involved in community organizing including co-founding an educational organization for sexual minorities in Hong Kong, co-founding a Sex Workers’ Film Festival and a Women’s Theatre Festival in Hong Kong, and the Asian Lesbian Film Festival in Taiwan, among others.

Before academia, Yau Ching has worked as instructor and consultant for Gay Men’s Health Crisis’ “Living with AIDS” cable show, as translator for multinational corporations, as editor for film magazine in Hong Kong, and on the side, an independent film/videomaker. Her film/video works have been invited to venues including Alexanderplatz Station of the Berlin Underground, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Galarie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and broadcast in North America, Europe and Japan. Some of them are in the permanent collection of the Asian Film Archive in Singapore, Tate Library in London and M+ in Hong Kong. 

As a writer, she has been invited to Singapore Writers’ Festival, Taipei Poetry Festival and Iowa International Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have been translated and featured in international literary venues and publications including World Literature Today, Asymptote, Catamaran, Transpacific Literary Project, and Center for the Art of Translation, among others. She is one of the four winners of the 2020 Words Without Borders–Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest.As an unprofessional teacher, she has taught at the University of California, San Diego, University of Michigan, School of Visual Arts in New York, Royal Holloway College of the University of London, Hong Kong Lingnan University, the Chinese University, and at the National Central University, Taiwan. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at Academia Sinica, and at the Center for Chinese Studies in Taiwan, as well as an Honorary Professor in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Since 2022, she took up a Professorship at the Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan. Her research interests include Hong Kong and Taiwan cinemas, literature and colonial modernity, sex work in early Republican China. She plays Go/weiqi unprofessionally.

香港作家、媒體工作者。一九八零年代開始在香港報章雜誌上寫專欄，並發表詩、散文、小說、文化藝術評論等。長期關注性與性別、媒體與再現議題，近年硏究民國及香港電影，及香港殖民現代性。

香港大學英文及比較文學學士、紐約社會研究新校媒體研究系碩士、紐約惠尼藝術館藝術創作獨立研讀課程畢業生、倫敦大學皇家郝露威學院媒體藝術系博士、夏威夷大學洛克菲勒獎助人文學科博士後。曾於加州大學聖地牙哥校址、美國密西根大學、臺灣國立政治大學等任教；並為台灣國家圖書館漢學研究中心及中研院文哲所訪問學人。二零零六至二零一五年間為香港嶺南大學文化研究系副教授；並曾為汕頭大學文學院客座教授、香港大學名譽教授、香港大學比較文學客席教授、香港中文大學中國研究中心客席教授等。二零二二年起為台灣中央大學英文系教授。 

電影及錄像作品曾入圍臺灣金馬獎、日本山形國際紀錄片展等。《好郁》榮獲葡萄牙費加拿霍斯電影節影評人大獎、《流》榮獲日本視象論壇評審團特別獎等。專書多種，獲香港中文文學雙年獎（詩組）、兩次獲中文文學創作獎（散文組）、Words Without Borders國際翻譯詩獎等，並獲邀參加新加坡作家節、新加坡詩歌節、臺北詩歌節、美國愛荷華國際寫作計劃等。