\u00bbI want to focus on the act \u2013 particular, yet open-ended \u2013 that entrances my protagonist: an act that we, the audience, share with him. This is the act of watching. Looking. Seeing. What does it mean to look, to watch, to photograph, to film? … I want to focus on fiction, this realm that frees us from the stranglehold, the exigencies of past and present. The narrator uses fiction to imagine that things can change, to expand into possibilities that \u203areality\u2039 precludes. In this way, fiction or fabulation is the present\u2019s gift to the future.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Shelly Silver<\/p>\n
A man returns to Chinatown, after fifty years, to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images \u2013 his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse. This man, who never tells us his name, returns as both insider and outsider to a neighbourhood from which, as a teenager, he escaped as fast as he could. Awards for \u203aTouch\u2039 <\/strong>
\nTouch<\/strong> is an essay narrated from one man’s point of view. But it is also fiction, for this man is a made-up person, an amalgam of research, interviews, off-the-record comments, secrets, improbabilities and free-floating desires.<\/p>\n
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\nLe Prix du Patrimoine de l\u2019Immate\u0301riel, Cine\u0301ma du Re\u0301el, Paris | Mention Spe\u0301ciale par le jury, Compe\u0301tition Internationale, Cine\u0301ma du Re\u0301el, Paris 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20174,"template":"","movie_year":[101],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[349],"festival":[565],"class_list":["post-11640","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-101","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-panorama-en-2014","festival-2014-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n