Video

“Boyfriend (男友)”, "Nan you"

Jennifer Chan

2014, 06:27 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 1065.07

Boyfriend (男友) features East Asian male diaspora discussing a variety of perspectives on heterosexual love and masculinity. The video combines YouTube vlogs and webcam videos with seductive images of dominant East Asian masculinity. A melange of K-pop boy bands, J-Pop has-beens, Taiwanese idols, and former-Cantopop crooners are cut to an earnest Mandarin cover of Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend”. Somewhere in there Jay Park, a diasporic pop-star-turned-rapper rips off his shirt to reveal his chiseled figure. We watch as a straight  Asian couple walking away–the guy holding his girlfriend's handbag. Contains concert footage, interview, Youtube vlog footage.

Rental and Sales

Single Screening Rental

$140.00

Educational Purchase DVD (Bluray +$15)

$260.00

5 Year Educational Streaming License, Digital File with DVD Circulation Copy

$550.00

Gallery Exhibition and Installation, complete Media Request form for quote

Institutional Archival Acquisition, complete Media Request form for quote

Curators and programmers, please contact distribution@vtape.org to receive a login and password to preview Vtape titles online.

Screening and exhibition rentals and archival acquisitions include public performance rights; educational purchases or licenses include rights for classroom screenings and library circulation. When placing an order the customer agrees to our general online terms and conditions. Payment (or a purchase order number) and a signed licensing agreement must be received before media can be shipped to the client.