"Set" "Action" "It's very early in the morning, really sleepy" "This is a makeup specially for high definition filming" "These are the dance steps of Rain" "How's your boy friend?" "My boy friend?" "Please introduce" "Very handsome, Ivan" "Boy friend" "This is your dream boy, right?" "He likes me" "Yeah" "Later I realized that I like him too" "Yes, that's how the story goes" "So far it is" "He helps my family a lot, in the story lf you were gay, is he your type?" "He is perfect" "How can a mankind be so handsome?" "How much do I owe you?" "You can hardly find one in Hong Kong" "How shall I pay?" "I need my cheque book" "Treat me to a dinner" "Breathe like you are being punched" "Why do you have to shout every time?" "This is the way Osman taught me to open up my voice" "Because when we sing fast songs" "We usually do this to open up our voices" "And the effect will come out" "But will people complain about us yelling like this?" "This is my boy friend" "He is your boy friend too" "Yes, he is too I am a play boy" "Yeah" "No problem" "I act as a Palestinian from israel" "How's your first kiss to a boy feel?" "Kiss him as a girl." "Actually he is the one to kiss me I am the passive one" "Practice more" "But you are wearing clothes" "Don't really need to practice." "Just be natural lt's unnatural with your clothes on" "We don't really have to do French kiss" "We can kiss each others' necks" "That's it" "Then you get up and look at me I get up by myself, right?" "Of course, how can I help you?" "You don't need to push me up" "Right, like this" "Not as embarrassing as I imagined" "Because he is handsome?" "Maybe I may not able to kiss him if he's ugly" "Okay, second day of shooting is done" "So far so good Ivan" "I forgot" "Sean, it's your turn" "Follow the teacher's steps I have no talent in this lt would be better if it's Hip-Hop dance" "Like that of Rain?" "Show me" "He's good at Rain's dance steps" "Great" "You need to fall back when I do this" "Because when your head is down I can hit you" "Lean back" "When we are exhausted" "Actually it's not a real fight but to show off" "You are lust new friends." "There is no way to be a fierce battle" "So just to try test each other" "Then you can stop" "Don't have to be dead or live" "Can we try the two kicks... I said before?" "Yes" "But would that be dangerous?" "No." "We won't hit, but look cool" "Like those in the magazines... I know..." "I know... yes" "They capture the shots when one lump to the highest and kick" "Actually you are kicking in a slightly different direction" "No way to hit each other" "But look pretty cool l won't knock you down" "Ants I know" "Remember your high kick at the sauna?" "When you jump, I will follow" "You jump separately ln opposite direction" "The image will be overlapped on camera" "But we are separated I understand" "I'm trembling" "The first time swimming is so hard to me" "The scene we just shot was swimming to the raft" "Then fighting on it" "As if fighting on the arena" "Then we jumped into the water" "Not bad, done in 3 times" "A wide shot" "We have done some wide shots before, and today we take the close ups" "Everything is fine" "But for the last three takes" "Each was cooler than the previous time" "The first one was better, because we had done some warm up here" "But it became cooler for the second and third takes" "The third time was killing us" "Our bodies were wet under the wind" "But the ginger tea helps" "Osman, are you alright?" "I don't know yet. I'll tell you tomorrow" "Still fine for the moment" "When you are here, push him to the corner" "You need to be natural lt won't work if you two are the same" "Okay I've already imagined you were a girl." "Don't worry" "That's wrong." "You should treat him as a boy" "Set" "Action" "Okay, cut" "What came to your mind?" "The most painful memory in my life I thank Ivan for performing that scene" "I am so relieved I am Josh Aviv," "Magical Software from Israel I act as a Palestinian from israel I came to Hong Kong for a business trip, and I met Ivan" "After one night stand, we became close friends" "Today we are filming in a supermarket Ivan and I are doing some shopping" "But his boy friend calls him" "So we broke up" "Try to be sad,..no..." "should be unrestrained" "Broke up then, anyway" "Once you heard his phone ringing" "You came up, take a bottle, and have a look" "You keep an eye on him when it rings" "Keep your eyes on him while you put down the bottle" "Once he picks up the call, keep gazing at him" "Pay attention to his actions, get closer" "Let go other things... before he hanged up" "Or you are out of his sight when he's on the phone" "Be initiative" "You know what is happening" "is the angle too wide, director?" "Or this" "This is good" "If you have to be here I'll show you" "Not sure if you can remember or not I am here" "Here is your starting point" "One, two, three..." "One, two, three..." "Then take away your hands" "And you come here" "You come here after he released his hands" "Then you'Il be here when you turn around" "Here?" "Yes, you will be here at my position" "After Sean released his hand" "At first you were side by side" "Once he release his hand imagine there's something you feel interesting here" "Give yourself a motivation to walk here" "Oh me?" "You'Il be in the right position" "You need to pause for a while" "So we try again" "Do you need to kiss later?" "Yes I will give him my first kiss on the screen" "Me?" "Oh no." "You know I am going back to Tel Aviv next week I'll miss you always but you need someone else to hug" "I love you. I will live to see you again lt's a deal" "Cut" "What are you doing here?" "What role are you playing in this scene?" "First you zoom in there" "An excited scene of us" "Today I perform in nude" "Like a porn star" "Hey, that is new." "What is it?" "Can you get a towel?" "You are on screen" "She didn't give me a red pocket" "She has seen my full frontal" "She kept looking at me without a blink" "Actually I can't see clearly" "She said she can't see anything" "She said she can't" "She'd like to confirm if she can really see something" "What is your character?" "Little brother of the leading man" "An expert with girls" "Look!" "My girlfriend is so naughty" "Do you think I am not embarrassed?" "We have just re-shot it for a dozen times" "Cut that." "Take care of your girl" "Enioy yourself" "He got drunk with his girl last night, and stay over at my place" "You really get on well with straight guys" "How's your luck bending the rod..." "your dream boy?" "I am used to be nude in front of her now I will put his photos in my blog" "You should have been very accustomed to that" "That's part of your life lt's still very embarrassing" "I'm telling him my secrets" "So Ivan has faith in me" "Give his first time to me" "Because it is definitely not the first time for Josh" "What's coming next is..." "Really cool" "Really cool" "This is a high priority scene I'm trying to brainwash myself" "This is the scene between me and my boy friend" "Not boy friend, but fling" "We will do something only for adults" "So..." "How do I feel?" "Nothing special" "Because I did prepare for it" "Surely not to practice with a boy" "Just to imagine how it will happen" "Should I imagine him to be a boy or a girl?" "I take him as a boy" "Because there should be some differences" "You would be more gentle with girls" "But with boys you should show your masculinity" "Because we think both characters are masculine" "You can't see it by the outlook" "But from the eyes and body movements... they know each other are gay" "Not some shallow expressions" "But something deep inside" "Set" "Action" "I've never actually done this before, as I told you" "Okay." "Let me tell you my secret" "So you will have some faith in me" "Well, I am actually a Palestinian" "But you said you're from Israel" "Like you said you were not gay" "Oh, come on lt is lust the same place, same people actually isn't there a border or something?" "Yes, but we can still commute lt's a bit hard to explain until you see it lt's a bit hard to explain until you see it I hope I can live to see it" "Wow, nice closet you've got" "No wonder you don't want to come out" "Do I have a choice now?" "Not really." "Now you know my secret" "And you have to die unless..." "Cut" "Open the door a bit more" "You sit in there" "The position where directoriust said cut" "Move a bit more" "Josh, let me take a look at your position" "Move aside those clothes" "Josh, try to walk over there" "Open that door if it blocks you" "Around this position" "Don't move to this side" "Because I can't pan the camera anymore" "Gold Coast of Australia" "The scene is about we meet again after a long separation I will drive a motorbike" "And there will be some changes in my styling" "My hair... will become longer there" "Why?" "Because I will keep a long hair" "To look more mature" "We lust arrived at the Brisbane Airport" "Go exploring the environment" "We will start shooting tomorrow" "Four scenes here" "My partner, Windson, is over there" "I We are now on the 77th floor of Q1 the top floor" "This is a restaurant" "You shouldn't just look at the inside, but the outside" "The view is splendid" "The city has a remarkable pattern" "It's the ocean out there Imagine when your parents are gone" "What's the point staying at home alone?" "Why not lust move to China to work" "Away from Hong Kong" "You are wordless to him... even ifyou see him in Hong Kong" "And you don't seem to care about him" "Why should he stay in Hong Kong?" "Better go working in China" "So I feel regret when I see him?" "Yes" "Why wasting so much time" "Yes, that is a big regret" "So when you are in the bar" "You let off your feelings" "Six years, I've lost you for six years" "Because you were not doing well either in those six years" "You just came here" "Live the life of a ronin" "Can you explain the bar scene to me?" "Because I think, this scene is my... lt depends if you can reach your utmost performance" "And to vent your emotions" "You used to play arm wrestling together happily" "Now you are happy to play this game again, and get drunk" "You actually feel happy the moment you are crying" "But you feel so sorry for losing those six years" "You wonder if you should blame him or yourself" "You meet him lust by chance" "You thought you would never see him again" "So this time you don't care any more" "Just to pour all your feelings out to him" "You are the love of my life, I want to marry you" "Dare to tell him everything" "Because you are afraid this is your last chance ls it because I'm drunk..." "when I say to marry him?" "Partly and in fact...." "Not because you want to" "You're not the kind of person who long for marriage" "But the emotion at that moment makes you..." "Because marriage is always something that bother you" "When he said to marry a girl, you were doomed" "So what you are going to say is" "You don't accept me lf you accept me, we can get married right now" "That's your feeling" "You feel a bit stupid, wasting six years" "Actually both of you feel the same" "Both are stupid" "Repentance is good, but innocence is better" "Both of you have the same feeling" "Just because of the bad temper..." "You know it but you can't help with the bad temper" "Six years vanished in life" "And it is by luck that you meet" "You would never meet him again actually" "You both are extremely happy for seeing each other again lt happens all of a sudden" "You are in ecstasy" "Then a feeling of sadness and condolence" "Regret and sorrow" "You're not thinking about your future yet" "Because that's not the right moment" "And in fact you don't have a future." "That's your destiny" "Action" "I am the bartender" "Are you recording already?" "Really?" "These are my old buddies" "Tom, Tom and Tom" "When they come near, you bring them down" "They are walking in" "When it starts, they are on their way coming" "When you see them, you make them sit here" "From there?" "No, from your position now" "Walk here from the back" "Can you pass over there?" "Yes" "Can I stand here?" "Sure I have to beware not to block the camera, right?" "It's okay if you lust block a bit lt's okay" "You come here." "They sit down." "Take the orders" "Are you gay?" "No!" "He is not gay" "His wife just got pregnant" "Yeah" "Okay, Jimmie, if you don't mind..." "Can you tell me how long have you known Ivan?" "Ivan?" "Six years, I think, quite a long time" "Excuse me, sorry" "Six years I lost you for six years" "Ivan!" "Listen!" "Me, Windson, I am forever your best friend" "Friend, that's all, got it?" "Friend, what friend do you mean?" "I don't get it I only know that since I lost you I no longer know what happiness is" "Cut" "One more" "Permanent Residence is a story about a man... who indulges in thoughts of death" "Throughout his life, he has been thinking... how one should live his life" "Whether there is an afterlife lf there is one, what kind of preparation can we do in our present life" "To reunite with our beloved ones afterwards" "His passion has been a tough one too" "As he falls in love with a straight guy" "They develop a long... and deep relationship" "After we are done shooting the film" "We've found many scenes... in the movie really beautiful" "Filming in Japan, Australia, Israel and Thailand are precious experiences lt is worthwhile... to make an album out of it" "The front cover photo is about Ivan and Windson..." "The two boys are....how to call this..." "Arm wrestling" "This is what they usually do in the film lt is a game which two men would play together" "Symbolizing the special relationship between males lt is love, but also a battle" "A relationship that encourage both to improve" "I Ivan and Windson, on the raft at night time" "They went skinny dipping" "Then boxing and wrestling on the raft" "That should be the most difficult scene" "Because...unfortunately... it was bitterly cold that day I guess it was only 1 O degrees." "The water was freezing cold" "And the raft was quite far from the beach" "They were already freezing when they swam to the raft" "But they still had to wait for all the equipments to be ready" "For the shooting" "What is the pain and pleasure... for a gay man falling in love with a straight guy?" "I think the pleasure is... that if they can become lovers" "They both must have made sacrifices... for the love" "When he is not born to love a man" "And he can truly fall in love with you" "This implies a special value in it" "The album of Permanent Residence is challenging instead I feel like being a director at that moment" "I become the one to teach the director how to act" "Very interesting I spend lots of time to lead them... to bring out the feeling" "And express it... with great passion" "That makes me feel really excited ln this album" "You and your assistant Byron Pang... have taken part in it and in nude imitating certain scenes of the movie" "Right" "At the design stage of the album" "Suddenly I got an idea" "That in my movies" "Many handsome guys pe_orm in full nudity" "For the sake of me lt may be a good idea for us to have a role exchange" "To make it fair" "There are two male leads in the film, right?" "Ivan and Windson I can only play the part of one boy" "So I invited Bryon Pang to be the other one" "When I first brought this idea... up to him" "He said yes immediately" "This is really a crazy idea" "But I will go crazy with you I think that's cool" "Me and Byron acting Ivan and Windson" "Taking these passionate photos lt's stressful for me to pair up with him" "Because he is a Mr. Hong Kong" "His figure is near pe_ection ln a month before taking the photos I lost a dozen pounds" "Quite... an unexpected reward" "On the su_ace of it, Permanent Residence is a story about" "A gay man loving a straight guy" "But to me, it is a story about life and death" "When making a film with some sex scenes" "No matter it is of the opposite or the same sex I think it basically makes no difference" "Just because of some traditional fetters" "Actors have to open up their minds more" "To get into the characters" "The character of Windson... I think it is similar to my own character" "although I am a singer and a dancer, bouncing all the time" "Actually I am an introversive person I am unsociable and reticent" "The character of Windson is just like me" "Full frontal is a breakthrough" "Because...firstly nobody in Hong Kong has done this before" "And it is hard for me to face... so many audiences like that" "But fortunately" "The director has given me a lot of guidance and sharing with me" "That actually this is common for the foreign artists, for the sake of art lf everybody takes the movie seriously" "No one should care much about nudity" "For the first cooperation with Scud I feel that he has passion for movies" "He is very brave" "After working in this field for so many years I am no longer as bold as him" "So when I find him so brave I should bring back my courage again" "How do I feel for the first cooperation with Scud?" "This is one of the most comfortable films I've acted"