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On Christmas Eve, Miss C’s life falls into chaos—tangled Christmas lights in her Pilates studio, a sudden lack of enthusiasm from her dating app matches, and even a rude old man insisting on joining her class. Overwhelmed by these frustrations, she struggles under the pressure. But as she navigates these unexpected challenges, she gradually regains her rhythm and comes to understand the true meaning of waiting and choice.
My work is an attempt to combine the relationship between historicism, commodity totem worship and political semantics. I do not intend to respond to questions about political correctness, but also try to show the unsolved issues of art itself. What I care about is how they find enough channels between history, reality and the public. In short, my creation is the crystallization of personal complexity. As long as the perception that can be obtained through the idea, it can be regarded as a style in the development of my personality. All the warriors related to experience may become artistic associations. They are the result of profound meaning and endless reproduction. There is a mysterious place. ---Dean-E Mei's self-report
The Heroic Lovers from the Tomb was a martial arts movie produced by Hsin Hwa Motion Picture Company in Hong Kong and shot in Taiwan. It tells the story of a gang and two teams of warriors seeking revenge for the murder of their parents. In comparison with The Return of the Condor Heroes written by Jin Yong and published in 1959, it is easy to see the influence of the novel on the film, including the similarities that the disciples are asked to be abstinent, the romance between the hero and the heroine and the Blade-Dance of the Two Lovers.
In a snowy landscape, a man works day and night to restore a two-century-old wooden house – a meeting point of family tradition, war, winding river, and people from elsewhere. Through traditional photography, the director captures emotions in the old window frames, history in the grain of the wooden walls, and memories in the hand-sanding paints.
A short film by Wang Chu-Chin. The first winner of Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan.
The protagonist escapes Earth after a global nuclear destruction to find a new planet to live on but finds that he/she always returns to it to learn life's profound lesson.
A spy story on woman island.
The story revolves around the peculiar relationship between a princess, a castle, and the Bug King. Through a fragmented narrative style, the princess's yearning ambition for her past kingdom is personified, transforming into the Bug King, a being of only faint power. He becomes a surrogate for the princess in reviving the kingdom, creating an imagined fantasy within a forest of strange creatures.
The film depicts the lives of elderly people living in a nursing home: their agony, longing and loneliness. Through the visuals of the film, they gradually illustrate a painting of their life. Love is after all an everlasting treasure intertwined in bittersweet sorrow. Caught in the space between dream and reality, images of wintry Taipei, with its drizzling rain, and the gloomy sky reflect fading minds of these aged women.
The metamorphosis of the story “Madame Butterfly” told through the perspective of three women over the past century.
In hope to find his lover, a Mainland Chinese A-Fei, comes to Taiwan. He is mistaken by others to be a missing taxi driver. Seeing all those roads named after Chinese provinces, A-Fei believes he can surely do this. At the same time, a gangster movie is about to shoot⋯
Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.
After school, Xiao-Ci wants to talk to her mother about what happened in school today, but her mother was too busy looking for the evidence to prove Xiao-Ci ’s father is still smoking secretly. Xiao-Ci’s mother was sure that, last night, she heard the sound of a lighter: “Pada!”
[Installation Art Decade Series-Crossing Huashan Wall (History, Ready-made Objects 1998) The Huashan Winery in Taipei City was designated as the first installation art exhibition of the Art and Cultural Special Zone. The background of abandoned factories and warehouses brings a special atmosphere to the film and is also fully utilized by artists.]
In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.
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.
The Household Diary reveals the unspoken secret in the filmmaker’s family by recording the intimacy among family members. Through the process of filming and editing, the filmmaker reconstructed what a family should be like reflected on the meaning of family.
A bizarre animated film about a girl, who fell out of a toilet.
A seed who can’t get under the sun and the shadow who needs light to exist are each other’s meaning of life. The seed makes up her mind to find a way to be with the shadow, kicking off a journey to explore this strange world.
When a dying millionaire (Kang Ding) offers a huge financial reward to find his missing granddaughter, the news catches attention of several people: a wandering guitarist A-Wen (Wen Xia) and his sidekick Xiao Wang, as well as two street performers (Tuo Xian and Qiu Wangshe).
This film is like a person standing naked in the middle of a square, covered in wounds, holding up a sign that says “Free Hug.” Many people come to embrace him, and he embraces many in return. Yet this does not mean that those who embrace him are unscarred—it is only that they are clothed. — Director Zhang Yu
With a rabbit's dead body in hand, a glove puppetry performer reenacts the movements of rabbits as imagined by humans. The project was initiated by the death of a laboratory rabbit, and was inspired by the artist's family memories. The artist's grandma served in an animal laboratory for thirty years, during which, due to the particularity of her job, she had to dissect living animals for observation and experiments.
Before the pandemic, I did a series of street shoots in Wanhua, a place out of my comfort zone. Then, I got Covid-19. During the quarantine, I looked back at the photos, wondering if the people are doing well or not. I seemed to have a shared time with them, so I returned to Wanhua with the question: Do you know where is Zhen Zhen now? I let the residents tell their stories.
Zun-Tou Elementary School stood adjacent to Taoyuan International Airport. Everything on campus seemed to revolve around airplanes and the airport... yet it was precisely this proximity that ultimately led to the school’s disappearance. Through the interplay of sound and image, the film reconstructs a single day at the elementary school, piecing together the contours of childhood within its grounds. At the same time, the school serves as a microcosm, reflecting the broader erasure of landscapes under the Taoyuan Aerotropolis development.
The pastor of the church asked believers to sign a petition opposing the same-sex marriage referendum. A young church member with rainbow-dyed hair, raging with anger and resentment, sought to prove his own existence.
In a closed natatorium, Doris was skipping stone beside the swimming pool while she met Jay, a boy who brought his goldfish with him. They broke into it at the same time. Jay kept being nice to Doris and his strange behavior appeal to her . Till the very end, Doris decided to get over her shyness and took a big leap to express her feelings.
"I'm interested in the topic of homeless people and… there are a lot of things in this world that do not make sense." – Singing Chen Bundled is activist filmmaker Singing Chen's fiction/verite reflection on homelessness in Taiwan.
After his wife passed away, he started to dream… In his dream, he rowed a boat under endless tress on a dark, secret little river… Yu Dong wanted to keep his wife’s phone with her in the coffin. However, it was stolen by his nephew sold in the second-h market. The sadness seemed endless that made him start to send messages to his wife’s phone. Xiao Jun, an independent, young girl lived with her grpa, bought the phone in the market. She started to receive those messages from Yu Dong…
The special bond between filmmaker Mei-ling Hsiao and her daughter, who has Asperger syndrome, is meticulously recorded over a period of 12 years. As a result, we see Xiang Yun/Elodie grow from a creative girl into a young adult preparing for a career as a pâtissier. This means leaving her mother in Taiwan and moving to France, where her father lives, and where there is better training. But the distance between mother and daughter puts a strain on their relationship.
Maquette 1:1000 investigates a Taiwanese young architect’s self-awareness through the observation of two difference cities. Impacted by the cultural shock in the foreign environment of the West, Lan Lin makes her decision as she is again facing the same experience, unexpected pregnancy. Having the space-sensitive mind of an architect, she also reconstructs her artistic faith in her career within this extraordinary journey.
In 2021, an orchestrated coup d’état in Myanmar shuts down the country. Gao Gao, who can no longer go to school, spends his days with his friends in the village, passing the time by playing with toy guns, going through life as if nothing has changed despite the unrest around him.
An animated tale of how a family moved to Taiwan over a 5000 year journey.
On the Matsu Islands, young wrestlers enjoy the moment of victory or defeat and use wrestling to fight against their boring life. But "finding a way out" is always the most difficult issue just like Matsu in the middle of the troubled strait.
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Using Malaysia’s national flower, the big red flower (the red hibiscus), alongside non-native plants in Taiwan as characters, this collage illustrates the experience of Malaysian Chinese living in Taiwan. Trapped between dual identities and the language of others, they search for self-definition and a sense of belonging. Through the perspective of plants, the work reflects personal life experiences, with the hope of breaking down the boundaries between individual, national, and identity definitions.
A man tries to capture her by making a film. She travels through different countries and time zones, telling her life and thoughts. But the closer he tries to get to her, the further away he finds her, and he ends up with a film of his “Her” but not her.
Centred on the interwoven relationship between nature, spirituality and ritual, Charwei Tsai's "Lanyu — Three Stories" portrays the everyday life of the Tao people. Telling three short stories, the video is a journey into the indigenous communities that live in Lanyu, a rocky island off the southern coast of Taiwan, which controversially houses the nuclear waste of the country's three nuclear reactors.
This documentary is about a group of people led by the anti-high artistic attitude of the underground culture of the end century during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1995 for three consecutive days and two nights, supported by the unprecedented courage of the Taipei County Cultural Center; the planning is broken.
A film director try to make a good film but then realized the arrangement from producer was awful, the leading actress is not what he wished, even the important prop on set was disappeared. Director wants to make arts but he only feels the pressure from the acclaimed executive producer KIN GEN HAO. Then devilwoman appears, she met someone she loves, but when everything seem so beautiful, she realized there's a big mistake.
A short documentary directed by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂) while working as a cameraman at China Television Company (中國電視公司), produced for the television program News Highlights (新聞集錦). The film documents the group exhibition “Womangraphy” (「女展」), organized by V-10 (Group Visual-10).
A female director from Japan is in Saigon, preparing to shoot a film when her male lead suddenly leaves. She begins to rethink the meaning of the resonances and exchanges she has experienced in the city, leading her to perceive the images in front of her more clearly. Unexpected encounters and planned arrivals — these two almost contradictory concepts oscillate in her mind interchangeably. What she feels is not a remembrance of the past, but the future. The traces Saigon has left on her body form a sculpture without dimensions.
We stepped on Orchid Island (Lanyu) because of an ancient chant, which is the earliest sound of the Tao people recorded by Japanese scholar Kitasato Takeshi in the 1920s. Our filming journey, a 3-hour boat ride from the southeast coast of Taiwan, became a heartfelt exploration of the island's intersections between old and new, tradition and modernity.
Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind this, asking inwardly: What is the fight for?
In 2004, when an outbreak of H5N2 bird flu was first reported in Taiwan, Taiwan bureaucratic system insisted that this case was caused by chickens infected by migratory birds, but after investigation, the truth is unscrupulous businesspeople smuggling bird flu virus strains, invent and sell the illegal manufacture of vaccines. After the failure of the production, this vaccines resulting in a pandemic spread over whole henhouse. To unveil the truth, director began collecting samples from henhouse in 2006 and this six-year long investigation, never find the way out until the March 2010.
Summer 1996. Days after finishing their national college entrance exams, teenagers Simao, Awai and Qiming crashed their car at dawn following a night out in Beihai - with passengers An'an and Xiaomei. Simao, the driver, hovered near death in ICU for three months while his grandmother and traumatized friends kept vigil. Unbeknownst to the comatose youth, two life-altering events occurred that summer: his long-absent mother visited secretly, and his college acceptance letter arrived. This coming-of-age story traces the trio's journey through guilt, confusion and fractured dreams in Simao's shadow. When he finally awakens three years later - his innocence preserved like a time capsule - his friends confront bittersweet truths: their struggles to outgrow teenage skins now mirror the very fractures that once bound them.
Daylight Developing is a filmed family diary in the form of a personal cinema. This work covers a family history and discusses changes in the light of family in the economic globalization, including the constantly moving family, the absence of family members, the room for women in separated families, as well as representations the concept of home; ultimately what is the meaning of home? In the film, the use of light as a symbol highlights the sanctity of the family and the beginning of life and the use of changes in lighting in the home movie remind of the warm atmosphere in l’espace heureux and therefore leads us to imagine the deepening relationships between the members of this family.
Growth is learning to live with trouble. Kai, a ten-year-old boy with irritable bowel syndrome, plans to send the love letter to his crush, Jenny on Moon Festival.
A white collar worker is kidnapped on the way back home. The kidnapper gives lectures to him on the interrelationships among the five senses, and points out the importance of the olfactory system. Nomination for Best Short Film, 34th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan | Outstanding Short Film, 21st Golden Harvest Awards | Outstanding Narrative Film, Taipei Film Awards 1997
On a mountain climbing trip, a man falls into a mysterious forest. In a trance, he beholds a woman in white approaching. Tempted to stay but yearns to escape, he repeats this cycle day and night. Failing to locate the exit, he gradually wanes and ages, finding himself lost both in the forest and in time.
Hui works with her autistic-brother at the supermarket. Her husband is always away, so she constantly asks for the proof of his love. When she can't get it, she turns to her brother. The shocking ending makes us wonder what love means.
Musical movie called "Rock on" was ready to be filmed. For saving the cost of the budget, the casting producer named "Senior Tsai", picked up his roles from the rejects of an audition. Such as kid from Hong Kong, he can both write and sing, Candy, a girl who's just like the Barbie doll, and LaReine, a snappy girl who could dance hip-pop to the top, together they co-starred this new title. For creating more topics, Tsai he called up Johnny, who used to be the hottest idol, to helm this musical film and train the new hopefuls he had seek. Progressively, the shooting got started and this has-been idol, Johnny, he eagerly hoped this movie would win him his come-back moment.
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.