An immersive, hallucinatory VR experience – transfixed by the fantasy ahead, watch and feel desire unfold as you enter this forbidden sauna of sweat, want, and passion.

In a dim-lit room filled with mist emerge blurred figures of men, tasting desire and experiencing loneliness. Entering a fantasized gay sauna through a VR headset, you are transported 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 revisits an often-unspoken life experience of gay communities and cultures, exploring this male environment through a poetic lens to speculate on the diverse kinds of love that motivate desire. In The Mist is a hallucinatory and explicit VR experience that has screened and won prizes internationally, that Queer East has installed in London in the form of an intimate sauna locker room. 

Dir Chou Tung-Yen | Taiwan | 2020 | 15 min