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A theatrical spinoff of the 'Thunderbolt Fantasy' television series which explores the backstory of Shā Wú Shēng, the Screaming Phoenix Killer, and bridges the events of the first and second seasons.
Three space engineers operating a surface printer travel into outer space to build colony. Suddenly they encountered a meteorite shower and have been trapped. Young crews decided to go into hibernation and then, the captain thought of a special rescue plan.
A married man on a business trip checks into a hotel. The hotel manager’s daughter falls for him at first sight. Rejected by the man, she embarks on a journey of revenge...
Late night, a commuter bus was speeding along the coastal highway when, suddenly, a loud and panicky scream pierced the night’s silence. This wealthy and elderly lady had just woken to find her precious necklace stolen. What follows was a series of intriguing turn of events, chaotic mob justice, vengeful lynching, as the truth behind the theft unfolds. The film climaxes as the commuter bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against the pitch-dark coastal sky.
Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?
Combining ancient designs discovered on the Silk Road, and an enigmatic natural power called the Origin, Zhang Meng created Arti-C, a powerful mechanical man made of wood and metal. Having stirred up fears, he was accused of treason and slain — but not before entrusting the Arti to his son Mo, who controls the wooden robot, and his daughter Tong, a cocky swordswoman. The siblings, now grown, pursue a perilous quest across the desert in search of the legendary city of Loulan, where they hope to find the Origin at its source. However, with ambitious royal schemes afoot and a mysterious tribe guarding the Origin, the Zhangs’ goal will not be easy to achieve. In the battle to come, are they even on the right side?
Open! Open! 2015
Father, son, the lighthouse as the center of their lives. Both grow up, the son leaving every day to pursue his studies, then returning to an increasingly elderly father who welcomes him with the same warmth, taking him, as he has always done over the years, to the piano to play together.
Short animation by Po Chou Chi
A little kite breaks its tether, running away in its own odyssey of self-discovery.
Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.
The old man goes to mend window screens by his bike. He passes through busy streets, buildings, a night market and the Mazu Temple. Could all the ups and downs in his life attribute to his calm today?
Little Scissors, a little young girl always dreaming of becoming a space hero. Today is her first day of preschool. Surprisingly, she met the alien attack. Will she fight with them bravely? An incredible and fantasy story is keep going!
The main character of little girl in the story confronts a robbery and strays from the road she is familiar with. After passing a hedge, she enters an unknown world and unfolds a magical adventure depending on senses other than vision and her imagination. With soft and cute colors as the main key, we used simple designs to depict the little girls' imaginary world.
The film consists of four stories about four different dogs and their owners' lives, reflecting love, life and departure.
Short animation by Po Chou Chi
This animated film presents the journey of a queer person, exploring sexuality and the queer community. It illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity, reflecting the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.
A sweet potato, on the way back...
The social impact of gambling affected Taiwanese the mostduring the 80s in Taiwan. The concept of this film is to have audience experience and observe the social values of religion beliefs from a deity statue’s viewpoint through Virtual Reality technology.
Lying quietly in a cine-camera, a film awaits to fulfill its responsibility of projecting 24 frames of images per second after exposure. Nonetheless, I prefer rolling out films outright and fiddling with them by pigments application, collage, scratch, cut-and-mix, etc. Since these are camera-less measures, the projection is unpredictable, surprising, and often so astonishing that I would be mesmerized.
A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life from a microscopic perspective.
Mr. Grey struggling with his delusions fails to see the basic needs of his family. When he lies on his sickbed in the hospital, he remembers his long-forgotten wish is to build ““a house with a toilet”” for his Granny…
Abi is a cockroach who hates his own kind. He views humans as the most elegant beings and hence begins to observe and mimic their way of life and actions. One day,he was caught and got flushed down the toilet bowl, where he ended up in a foreign place. He thus began on this lonely journey, where he tried to find his place in this world yet only to face countless disappointments...
Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since. This is a film about metaphors, view with a caution.
A car crash test dummy makes a flipbook to express the existence of itself.
A story about two volleyballs. No genders, merely two objects and souls falling in love. Both were solitude until an encounter breaks their desire to be each other’s loved one.
A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.
A boy with a special talent discovers that he may never grow up. Those with power are devouring people's dreams and everyone is destined to be a slave. Can he break the rules and free the people or will people still blindly follow the rule?
Short animation by Anchi Shen and Jiayu Hu
There is an April day with inconsistent weather. A taxi driver, four passengers, sisters and brother are going to visit their mother. As strangers. Chaos is in silence, in their minds, on the road...
The background is set in nostalgic Hong Kong, a man keeping having nightmares after murdering his wife. In his nightmare, a big rat always appears to make trouble.
In the lovers’ relationship, it seems like that we’re going on a vacation to each other’s heart from our own individuals’ lives. We cannot control the duration of the vacation, and we need us to keep the mountains green, the ocean blue, and the sunshine hot. The vacation seems to end after all, and we need to pack the scattered baggages.
In a mysterious country, God makes couples by binding a man and a woman with a thread. However, Wendy and Elly fell in love with each other, but Wendy was forced to give up her true love by God's opposition. One’s love is the most precious in the other’s heart.
This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.
A collection of animated visual poems that illustrate a girl's surreal journey towards facing her fear of intimate relationships and of being touched. She is seen running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea, until her pain turns to relief.
Chi is a six-year-old little girl who lives ob the Happiness Road with her family. She recently starts school, but finds the teacher to be very demanding, and she has to speak Mandarin instead of her Taiwanese tongue to be a good student in class...
One day I asked my aunts and uncles about my grandpa. They said Grandpa was a gold miner, a trainee, a businessman and a hero. The stories they told are so difficult to imagine.
An unfinished housing complex has been abandoned. The imagined future from the past is taken over by foliage and wildlife.
We always play as a peeping Tom and the one peeped, releasing ourselves while learning messages from others’. Therefore, we need to have a dialogue with ourselves by recalling past in the end of the journey, in order to sum up the honest self and continue moving forward alone.
The line between life and death is deeply imprinted in my childhood, I remember a vivid memory of sunny days, a bucket of water almost full and a half-submerged new mouse in a cage wanting freedom, until it was exhausted and surrendered to inevitable death. The music used in this work is the German folk song Ach, wie ist’s möglich dann. In Taiwan folk culture the song was often performed at funerals, an interesting and absurd contrast to the song’s original use in the 1935 German literary film as the soundtrack for a love story. So Zhang choreographs a dance performed to this German folk song about death.
A boy's adventure in the ancient temple where were burned by the mysterious reason.
This experimental animation made out of multi-techniques, to explore the new possibilities of mixing the stop motion and computer graphic images in animation making.
"Travelling Through Brush and Ink" is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings, transforming himself into animals and plants, and becomes part of the nature. Each painting represents four important stages of landscape art in Chinese history. Based on the original paintings, we built the sets and animated little character inside- all frame by frame. The animation is the opening film of 2016 annual exhibition National Palace Museum Taiwan.
In a normal quiet Sunday, Dr. Evil Mantis attacted K-City unexpectedly with his gigantic claw, the entire city in panic and in danger. At the very critical moment, one young man stood out and fight the Dr. Evil Mantis. This is the moment for the hidden superhero, and his secret power is about to turn this chaos upside down. The Legend is about to begin...
A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience, recreating the senses of women in love and the unique inner sense of time through creation.
As people head out to enjoy the Moon Festival with their family, an old lady remains in her shop till the full moon is high in the sky. It seems as if she's waiting for someone.
Jack is a merman who longs for a love romance. One day, he is stricken by a sudden whirlpool. He faints away and finds himself on the hilltop after waking up. Can Jack swim back to his sweet ocean? Will the journey be the chance of meeting his Ms. Right?
An explosion of grace and aerial symmetry at 70 beats a second.
A daily gif created over 100 days.
There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.
A short animated silent film where about a girl who had a kite.
A story about memories.
An amazing origami action overload of paper cut-outs and corrugated cardboard shapes marching, climbing, dancing and jumping on a mission to create a pinball machine.
Intimate recordings in the personal surroundings of the maker. By re-ordering individual shots, hidden meanings emerge.
On a calm summer day, children want to have a different end of the vacation......
Talk about ya inmates taking over the asylum!!
The crowd follows their desire to pursue a goal that seems beautiful. I express the desire of people through their possession of chair. This film is to think about desire through the contrast of minimalist style and interaction of the person with the chairs.