Desire unfolds in a fantasy gay sauna in this hallucinatory and immersive VR experience created by Chou Tung-Yen as part of Queer East Film Festival 2022
[ID: film still depicting, through a haze of steam, a dozen naked men clustered together in a sauna]
Private view: Friday 20th May 6:30pm - 10pm
Exhibition continues 21st-24th May 2pm-9pm
Booking required. Tickets available on a ‘pay what you can’ basis via the link below
Blurred figures of men emerge in a dim-lit room, tasting desire and experiencing loneliness.
The Horse Hospital gallery will be transformed into an intimate sauna locker room from which you will be transported via a VR headset to a forbidden zone, a state between dreaming and awakening, a place in which you gaze at someone and are gazed at by them. Theatre, film and new media director Chou Tung-Yen explores this often-unspoken aspect of life within gay communities and cultures, exploring this environment through a poetic lens to speculate on the diverse kinds of love that motivate desire.
In The Mist was awarded the Prix Panorama at Festival de Nouveau Cinema 2021, and was selected for Venice Film Festival 2021 and Taipei Film Festival 2021.
Queer East is an LGBTQ+ film festival showcasing East and Southeast Asian queer cinema. This year it is taking place across various locations in London from 18 to 29 May.
In The Mist: trailer