Mickey Chen

Mickey Chen makes documentaries on queer and gender issues in Taiwan. He also participates in street protests for the gay and lesbian equal rights movement and believes that making documentaries can also be activism for social reform. His works include: Not Simply a Wedding Banquet, Boys for Beauty, Memorandum on Happiness, Scars on Memory.

Scars on Memory

Scars on Memory is Taiwanese queer documantarian Mickey Chen’s soothing and melancholy epilogue to his queer trilogy, which includes the famous Boys for Beauty (1999) and the controversial documentary on lesbian relationships Memorandum on Happiness(2003).

In Scars on Memory, Mickey Chen parallels and interweaves two gay love stories in a pretty diaspora and literaryway. Continuing his thematic focus on constructing…