Bugis Street
Yonfan
Fiction : 98’ / Sex Work, Trans, Transphobia, Community

The amazing adventures of chambermaid Lian, who takes a job at a hotel in Singapore that is inhabited by transsexuals and transvestites during the Vietnam War. Between rickshaw glamour and mascara virtue, the young Lian discovers a community and an entirely different way of life, and love, connection, and passion. A coming-of-age fantasy all her own, in a street full of darkness, divine decadence.

 

QL - Retrospective
https://www.yonfan.com

/ Details

Year: 1995

Country: Singapore, Hong Kong

Language: english and mandarin

Subtitles: english

With: Hiep Thi Le, Michael Lam, Ernest Seah, Greg-O, David Knight

/ Direction

Yonfan

China


Yonfan (1947, China) spent most of his childhood in Taiwan before moving to Hong Kong to work as a photographer at the age of 17. After travelling and studying in the United States and Europe, he returned to Hong Kong in 1973 and became a famous photographer noted for his celebrity portraits. His career as a filmmaker started in 1984, and he quickly gained commercial success with several Hong Kong romances and melodramas. From the mid-1990s, he steered away from the mainstream market, making internationally praised queer and arthouse cinema.

 

Photo: Ronina Greggio

 


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