By Patrick Frater Artist and Hong Kong-based experimental filmmaker Scud is to retire from filmmaking leave the city after completing his two final features. These have been licensed for North American distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures. A license deal for rights to “Apostles” and “Bodyshop” was struck by Breaking Glass Pictures and Artwalker, the production company through which the Continue Reading
The attention to detail and character studies elevate the whole LGBTQIA + genre. Audiences are drawn to the beautiful cinematography and scenery. -Rich Wolff
不是推介《 生死戀 》Love is a Many Splendored Thing，而是片名讓我想起你的作品。 Scud’s Creations are simply …… A Many Splendored Thing.So rich yet untouchable by the commons. -William Tang
Director Scud provides true nostalgie. When humans were more transparent, open and honest. When unnecessary censorship was not required. The human mind, body and soul are indeed the masterpiece of all artwork. Scud depicts this masterpiece in the most open and transparent way possible -Iku
Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to Continue Reading
Utopians (同流合烏) (2015) , Scud’s 6th and latest film, and is about sexual repression and liberation, homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality, religious belief and civil doctrine, honesty and hypocrisy, dreams, legends and realities. 2nd New Director Film Festival – Official Selection & Best Foreign Film Director 27th Palm Springs International Film Festival – Official Selection 13th Continue Reading
What Scud once believed to be his final film, Voyage (遊) (2013) is about depression, suicide, premature death and afterlife. It’s based upon his own experience of depression, and those of his friends’, some had lost their battles of life. It was filmed entirely in English, shot in Inner Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Continue Reading
Love is life, life as it is. Not every love story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding feast, unusual love stories unfold towards unexpected endings. Inspired by real life cases, the film is about love that gone bad: a brother and sister in love but caught by the mother, a married painter falls Continue Reading
Kafka, a straight fitness trainer meets Daniel, a passionate executive who happens to be gay. The young men fatefully fall in love and believe that their love can bridge anything, even their difference in sexuality and Kafka’s drug habits. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his Continue Reading
Ivan has been searching an answer to a lifetime question: Where will we be after the present life? On the way, he went thru a difficult passion with Windson, a straight guy, made a longtime friendship with Josh, a Palestinian, experienced the death of his beloved elderly, witness the wedding of his brother and the Continue Reading