Experiencing Interruptions?

Touch

After recently going blind, a young gay man struggles to navigate his new life in the shadows. Like any other person on the hunt for human connection he turns to social media and uses his phone’s screen reader function to re-engage with the world.

  • Song Huang
    Director
  • Song Huang
    Writer
  • Shaway Yeh
    Producer
  • Yusen Du
    Key Cast
    "Yue"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    轻触
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Romance, LGBTQ
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 22, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • NOWNESS
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Internet
Director Biography - Song Huang

Born in China, Song develops his passion for filmmaking from contemporary visual arts into an academic pursuit at American Film Institute in Film Directing. During AFI, Song directed his thesis film ALOUD, about a silent choirboy’s journey to find his voice. It received the AFI RICHARD P. ROGERS SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD and has been recognized at a number of festivals. Currently, he is developing his first feature, PARTICULATE MATTERS, an outwardly wholesome family begins to crack under the severe air pollution in China.

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Director Statement

At the age of 28, my friend was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Two years later, she lost her eye sight after a surgery and imprisoned in the darkness.

After learned her phone's voiceover fuction (an accessibility feature that makes the cellphone easier to operate for the blind and sight impaired), she gradually returned to the social media. Through the cell phone, she could stay in her familiar past and pretend that nothing has happened, but put down the cell phone, she becomes a blind person that is totally strange to herself.

However, even struggling with cancer and darkness, her longing for romance has not altered one bit. She becomes active in the dating apps and secretly explores the possibility of love and sex in the cyber world. In the hospital, the conversations between us are always about love and sex, so we can almost forget the presence of death and darkness. In those talks, we blushed, laughed, debated, argued and reshaped our understanding of love.

On the exact day one year after she lost her eye slight, she asked me to wish her happy birthday on her brand new life and we agreed that we were going to make a film together about LOVE.