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I’m Starving

Frameline Distribution

12 min. Directed by Yau Ching
  • Studio: Frameline Distribution
  • Directed By: Yau Ching
  • Year: 1999
  • Runtime: 12 min.
  • Country: United States
  • Languages: Chinese language, English language
  • Captions: Chinese captions, English captions
  • Date Added: 2025/04/27
  • Performers: Ghost, Robin

Curator's Note:

Director’s Statement: This is eventually a story about desire, or its impossibility. I was at a stage that I needed to realize a story as such, as a catharsis for my own being. The themes that I have always been obsessed with, like language and cultural differences, are still present but while they form essential components of the story, they also give way to something more basic: the will to desire; to love and to live.


Description:

I’m Starving is an erotic love tale between a ghost and a woman who share a small apartment in New York’s Chinatown. The ghost who eats paper money and Chinese takeout menus contrasts starkly with the woman who thrives on instant ramen noodles; both, haunted by their landlord, decide eventually to invent a future together.

"The pleasure of this film is the cultural references, metaphoric whispers and openly interpretive tale. Through gentle, erotic gestures and suggestions, I’m Starving evokes a whirlwind of passionate lesbian hunger and desire." - Lucretia Knapp, Dyke TV

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