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I am Air

This is a dialogue between air and people in the future world. People are the rulers of the world, or are they just parasites on Earth? Let the air tell you. Husserl proposed that existence is an object requirement of consciousness. In the future, the consciousness of air will become a system that can be experienced, allowing humans to infiltrate it. However, the purpose of creating this system is to change who you are now. The film attempts to explore the balance between humans and nature, using speculative narrative techniques, replacing consciousness as the storyline, using quantum erasure experiments and Newtonian classical mechanics as theoretical basis, crossing the boundaries of reality and virtuality, and attempting to guide the audience to generate new perspectives on nature and behavior after visual experience.

I am Air

NR 2021
Envy: Last Wish - Live at Liquid Room Tokyo

Envy played only one show after the worldwide release of their critically acclaimed new album, The Fallen Crimson. In February 2020 – before COVID-19 effectively halted all live music worldwide, Envy performed a crazy, sweaty, sold-out hometown show at LIQUIDROOM, the Tokyo venue that has become sort of an extended living room for the legendary band. “We were lucky that we were able to play this one gig before all live shows were canceled“, says vocalist Testu Fukagawa. “The performance itself is a bit rough and we could probably have performed better, but we wanted to send our fresh feelings to our fans by means of this performance, while they can't see Envy live.”

Envy: Last Wish - Live at Liquid Room Tokyo

NR 2021
Songs for Dying

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s new piece, Songs for Dying, composed of tropes and ideas from his “living archive,” combines the personal experience of accepting death and the perception of history with religious, technological, and political narratives. Footage of his grandfather’s funeral is followed by archival records of the popular uprising on South Korean Jeju Island, current student protests in Thailand, and references to pop culture. Using the metaphor of the ghost, central to this piece, the artist questions the linear perception of time and seeks to show how the past pulsates in the present. In his worldview, nature, people, and spirits are intertwined into a homogenous whole, forming a living and diverse reality.

Songs for Dying

NR 2021
Umezawa Sutejiro and Chiayi Art Museum

Umezawa Sutejiro came to Taiwan to work in 1911, and had stayed in Taiwan ever since then. He participated in design and construction of nowadays, to name a few, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Law School of Taiwan University, T&L Hsin Chu, Taichung Normal University, Chiayi Art Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Hayashi Department Store. This documentary film is in attempt to draw a finer portraiture of Umezawa by interviewing Umezawa’s grandson, scholars and architects and by focusing on the discourse of Chiayi Art Museum building. It also intends to pay tribute to Umezawa.

Umezawa Sutejiro and Chiayi Art Museum

NR 2021
The Unspoken Secret

He Jidong was drunk at a friend's party. When he woke up, the police had already appeared and found the diamond ring lost by his friend that night in his pocket. All the evidence and motives pointed to He Jidong, and He Jidong was imprisoned as a result. Two years later He Jidong was released from prison, his wife Jiaqi had divorced him. All of his friends and relatives also refused to deal with him. He Jidong's mother, however, asked a friend to find him a job on a construction site. He Jidong came to a low point in his life, but there is a woman who has been quietly concerned about him, accompany him. She is He Jidong's first girlfriend in college, Wang Fang.

The Unspoken Secret

NR 2021
8K Aerial Night View:Sky Walk Tokyo and Yokohama

Equipped with a cinema camera "RED WEAPON HELIUM 8K S35" and a high-performance camera anti-shake system "SHOTOVER F1" on an AS350B1 helicopter, we shot the glittering lights of the city in 8K60FPS from evening to night. In addition to high-precision and smooth movement, even small particles of light are expressed in rich colors by grading. Starting from Yokohama, where the twilight is beautiful, we introduce the bay area with the sky dyed in madder red and the silhouette of Mt. Fuji in the background.

8K Aerial Night View:Sky Walk Tokyo and Yokohama

NR 2021
Thanks For Watching

"Zhongsen Theatre" opened in 1968. At that time, the theaters competed with each other. The Zhongsen Theatre still managed its own characteristics in many theaters. However, after 2000, the old city was down, and it was closed to the changes of the times. The company was closed down and idle. As the old city began to recover, the theaters also changed hands, but most of them did not present the cinema, and the Zhongsen Theatre was sold to the construction company in 2016. The film records the demolition of the old theater and the rescue of two antique projectors, hoping to find a more suitable place for them to preserve and continue the spirit of the times. After the demolition is completed, the site is intended to be used as a new residential construction site.

Thanks For Watching

NR 2021
Nude at Heart

A background study of a dying amusement culture, filmed in slovenly dressing rooms in front of badly polished make-up mirrors. – That’s how far editor Mary Stephen follows director Yoichiro Okutani’s montage interpretation of his own footage about the Japanese strippers called Odoriko. But Stephen’s editor’s cut begins fully dressed: a tastefully lit stage overture in costume, starting from which she rearranges or rather sheds the material, reintegrating image and sound sequences originally discarded by Okutani, for example the titular statement of an Odoriko explaining her choice of profession: “It was about being nude at heart.”

Nude at Heart

NR 2021
Livestock Industry Promotion Exhibition in Hwanghae-do

The film documents an exhibition for livestock industry promotion held in Sariwon, Hwanghae-do from October 21 to 25, 1924. At that time, Sariwon was an up-and-coming city whose “daily development is known to everyone” (Chosun Ilbo, October 9, 1924). The exhibition was held as a grand festival, attracting crowds of 30,000 on its opening day and 40,000 the following day. A moving camera passes through the square decorative doors of various designs installed in Sariwon’s downtown, conveying the festival atmosphere. Acquired in 2010, and transferred in 4K resolution.

Livestock Industry Promotion Exhibition in Hwanghae-do

NR 2021
Work in Vain Song Ci

During the Song Dynasty, Song Ci came to Changting County to take up a post, and focused on the study of autopsy in order to write the “Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.” One night, a man and a women died at the same time, shaking up the whole county. When Song Ci heard about the case, he intervened the investigation and found that the case was very stage. While he found himself being cornered, Song Ci thought of the woman he hasn’t dared to meet for three years, the Changting County “All-rounded” Dan Qing. So Song Ci went to Dan Qing to enquire about the two recent murder cases, and asked Dan Qing to join the investigation. After a series of analysis, reasoning and visits, the truth is finally revealed.

Work in Vain Song Ci

NR 2021
The Dawn Chorus

Witness the first light and sounds of a new dawn breaking, as observed around the world one year ago. Patrick Shen’s cinematic meditation was created during the first COVID-19 lockdown by 35 artists from over 13 countries on May 3, 2020. With a soundtrack filled with environmental bird songs and ambient aural awakenings, the contemplative and collective portrait moves from darkness to light as a metaphor for hope and rebirth. 2020, United States, digital, nonverbal, 21 min.

The Dawn Chorus

NR 2021