ABSOLUTELY NO SEXUAL FAVORS/JE PENSE À TOI

Director Statement

In the summer of 2023, I visited Paris for the first time. While revisiting Qiu Miaojin’s (邱妙津) work—”Last Words from Montmartre/Dernières Lettres de Montmartre” (蒙馬特遺書), I felt the urge to engage in a cross-temporal dialogue with the emotions described in the book, discussing the possibilities of love, desire, and memory transcending geographical boundaries.

“Absolutely No Sexual Favors—je pense à toi/吾想汝顯 ” is a short film inspired by the Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin and her works. It attempts to explore the unease, confusion, and obsession experienced by the body as it crosses the urban physiognomy as a nomad.

The original soundtrack was created with the support of IMEP Paris College of Music and the University of Melbourne, in memory of Qiu Miaojin’s legacy and the inspiration she has left from Taiwan and beyond.