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Recording the way things are.

Me and my sister. I don't think an answer is needed but the endless feeling spreading.

"Taichung Way" is an original animated short set in Taichung, Taiwan. Through local dishes and a journey home, it follows a young person who has returned home. The film delicately portrays the taste of home and heartfelt human connections, capturing everyday streets and alleys bringing to life the warm memories of Taichung.

In a city of silent hearts, Ah-Hua meets Xiao-Ya online. He then feels a fleeting warmth in his still life. When she vanishes, his world dims. Their sudden reunion feels like fate... but is it a second chance, or just another beautiful illusion?

This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the mountainous regions of southern Taiwan, home to the Paiwan people. Compiled and edited by the Attic Museum, the film includes intertitles and was completed as a finished work. The cinematographer was Keitaro Miyamoto.

Xiaonan does not like smelly or messy places, but he is willing to brave his aunt’s chicken hatchery to make sure his egg friend Silly Head hatches.

The protagonist and her friend talk via a tin can phone in a flower field. Sensing her friend’s sadness, she searches, hearing confessions of fear and longing. The friend vanishes, leaving only the phone, as the vivid field remains and their dialogue resumes.

The Stories of Celluloid project consists of multiple chapters that explore the past and present of dataset image through early film production material: camphor.

A mother working hard and taking care of her husband while they wait for their son.

My first living space after I was born, located in an old street. This old apartment has a long shape and a river on the back. the world outside changed as time goes by, the house gathered the smell of life. A small cloud visits the space and goes through it. Time and memory became like a dream in a daylight.

A taiwanese sport film

Authoritarianism deprives people of their right to live freely: rebellion or escape? We can only fantasize about a better future within the confines of unchanging laws.

Green Island's link to political prisoners remains indelible despite its modern tourism. To depict the multi-faceted appearance of the island, the film centres on 3 characters: a local islander, a former prisoner’s daughter, and an artist with depression.

I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe the time will be right by then.

The Lin family was a poor family with a kind father and filial son. Life was originally harmonious, but the good times were not always so good. Ever since Grandma learned from her aunt that her second brother, Rensheng, had passed away on the 17th of last month, she fell down and fell into a coma, and the Lin family fell into a predicament because of Grandma's huge operation expenses. Ruolan, the eldest sister who is also a good student, gives up her chance to go to university because she can't bear to let her father work too hard and quits school to sing at a concert hall. The whole school helped out, and the story of the filial son of the Lin family aroused the sympathy of the public.

Here, we feel the joy of saving lives and the sorrow of omnipresent death. Can we truly coexist with wildlife?

All and Nothing explores the intricate life of late conceptual artist Li Yuan-chia, tracing his journey from WWII-era China to Taiwan, 1950s Milan, Bologna, and Swinging Sixties London, culminating in his 1971 establishment of the L.Y.C. Museum & Gallery in rural Cumbria. The film captures his essence as a journeyman and artist.

Focused on the 2018-2020 excavation of Todos los Santos Church on Heping Island, Taiwan, this film delves into maritime exploration and colonisation of Taiwan. The director combines archaeological findings with a cross-disciplinary musical performance, capturing the delicate excavation process. Furthermore, the film traces a creative journey from the site to historical events in Asia.

A healing poem about the companionship of all things in a family garden. A mother gathers crops and cooks with her son in their daily life. The son, while imitating his mother's cooking in the kitchen, chants folk poems with a sense of regret and longing for the distant.

Measurement of optical distance collides with psychological proximity. The experience of an eye test retreats to insect visual motion experiment observers. We walk through a camera obscura to a Lacanian anecdote. Interior and exterior space blurs. It’s a process of anchoring yourself from the outside.

31 years ago, the story was written. Origami animation.

DUAN Chang-wen left his hometown Sichuan, China in 1949, and followed the Government of the Republic of China to Taiwan. DUAN Tsai Tsai-chiung, a young female from Taiwan, worked diligently in a textile factory. For the next forty years, they lived in a military dependents' village and worked in a clothing factory. As the factory closed down and the village being demolished, people started to move away. The DUAN couple, however, continued to live there. Their memories and lives were being captured by their granddaughter in this film.

This is a film about a daughter’s feelings about losing her father. Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry, and keep changing. In this experimental animated documentary, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques and brought through a diary-like atmosphere to immerse the audience in unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.

The crime story takes place in a car, following three thieves who get their hands on a valuable antique only to have the fruits of their labor shared with a newcomer.

A building with fifty years of history was once a popular spot in the memory of the locals, but now it is considered to be the cancer of the city because of its shabby exterior and the interior that looks like a ruin. When it was going to be rebuilt due to urban renewal, "Escape Plan," a group of young graffiti artists, sneaked in this twelve-story ruined building. For them, it is a rarely seen wonderful space to create art. They are now planning to challenge themselves to create something they have never thought of.

The filmmaker took a trip to Nepal and ended up embarking on a journey of self-discovery through a relationship. In a self-reflexive tone, the film ponders upon the transformation of her position within the relationship. As she resituated herself in geographical terms, she was also on a spiritual quest to her innermost self through destruction and reconstruction.

Legend has it that one can realize their wishes by continuously having sex with unattractive people to accumulate good karma. Ching constantly has sex with unappealing gay men to fulfill his wish of getting close to his handsome crush.

Hsin-yu said he wanted to be himself. In order to alter her ID card registration from female to male, Hsin-yu began to go to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation in accordance with the law, and also prepared to undergo gender reassignment surgery. At the same time, he must also ask for the acceptance and recognition from his parents and siblings. It is extremely difficult to confront with his parents' worries and the doubts of his brother and sisters, however, Hsin-yu still persists in being himself...