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Colt is obsessed with the rock band Speedy's Overdrive, to the point of hallucinating conversations with its frontman, Speedy. When he unexpectedly wins a contest to meet his idol, his excitement turns into inner conflict, forcing him to choose between his dream and his friends. As the long-awaited day arrives, Colt finally comes face to face with Speedy, but the encounter doesn’t go as he imagined, leading him to question everything he once believed.

An audiovisual perfomance by SABIWA.

In the stickmen's world, one matchstick figure finds himself at odds with the seemingly inevitable cycle of burning. Unable to ignite like others, he struggles to find his place until discovering his own secret to shining.

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 Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu as an economic entity is one of Taiwan’s internationally recognized identities nowadays. Revolving around the economic miracle, Battle City 2 – Economic Miracle depicts Taiwan as a mandate whose reconstruction has been entrusted to the JJ Corporation by the United Nations in the form of BOT (build-operate-transfer) after the nuclear disaster known as The Glory of Taiwan, and the JJ Corporation plans to transform Taiwan into “New Formosa,” a special economic zone for foreign exchange earnings. In this story, the investors also call the “New Formosa” an “economic farm” in the sense of a farming concentration camp, where Formosans are kept as economic animals intend- ed to offer services of all stripes for the investors.

On 1st July 2022, as Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of its handover, tropical storm Chaba lashes the city. Cyclone captures the resilience and vibrancy of Hong Kong people as they navigate the day amidst historical significance and natural upheaval.

A feature film directed by Chi-Ming Lei

Child Portrait is a mirror that presents life from multiple perspectives, reflecting the various relationships between the self and others, and the issues that come with different emotions. Painting is not simply a thinlayered medium presenting one's skills, but an art of deep understanding and acceptance. The painting throws out questions, and I walk into the world of the painting with my camera to find answers with the painter across time and space.

Suthat, a young man from the northeastern part of Thailand, has worked in Taiwan for six years. He does not aim to save money, nor does he have any plans for the future. He has just moved to Taichung. Four months ago, he visited the ASEAN Square for the first time. It was in a Thai disco club that he met the film crew that was scouting locations and looking for materials for a production to be shown in a group exhibition at MoCA Taipei in May. For reasons unknown, the film crew invited Suthat to join the film. That day, Suthat came to the ASEAN Square to celebrate the Songkran festival with his friends. During the past four months, he has made quite a few friends; and today, the film crew with a Thai interpreter became his new friends.

Theater Quarterly leapt on stage in 1965 with a literal bang by breaking a fragile plaster gong and the performance of two absurdist theatre pieces, The Prophet and Waiting for Godot. This film interviews those involved in the performance and recreates the plaster gong while weaving in archival footage.

In the year of 1996, a national weightlifter coach called A-Fu, founded a female teenager weightlifting team with three Bunun girls from the "Taoyuan Tribe". They're either orphaned or raised by a single parent or grandparents. Despite their success in weightlifting, they are confronted with the harsh reality of their family situations, career development and love lives.

Braised pork balls with brown sauce, boiled chicken, some fish, a lot of side dishes, pricey fruits, steamed sponge cake, red bun...and mom’s favorite cake. Okay, we’re all set!

This film captures some changing moments that took place in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2021. The changes in the landscape of our city are also a portrayal of the author's inner heart - cold rain, hot fire, and continuous loneliness.

The story takes place in a small Chinese village located in northern Myanmar, where it was once the land of opium. A-Biao, a struggling young man, who has been away from Myanmar for more than a decade, gets tricked by his father into going back home and witnesses the political reform in Myanmar.

Mori investigates the confluence of ecologies with place-based affectivities in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The title of the three chapters,“守(to protect)”、“森(forest)”、“杜(spirit)” are different in shapes and meaning, yet all pronounced as “Mori in Japanese.” Karst cave, groundwater, the soils, villager, burning mountain ritual, scientist, Buyō dancer, majestic oak and forest, the work questions the ways of contemplating nature through rituals and folklores, and how landscapes have been historically constructed. Conceptualizing Dan Graham’s installation “Two-way Mirror Triangular Pavilion with Shoji Screen” as diffractive model of the work, Mori sees landscape as process and inner mechanism, which is defined by our detached vision and interpreted by our bodymind. It is a panorama which continuously changes as we move along any route.

Wandering through and documenting different religious spaces when traveling, then through editing, these half sacred and half site-seeing experiences have been collaged to a passage to another heterogeneous space. Throughout the corridors and doors, The statues of saints and dolls gaze into the after world without the existence of humans, silence in trance. And it is the voice of prayers bringing me back to the mundane world.

A letter from the grassland, recounting a sweet dream that began with an unexpected encounter and gradually turned into an irrevocable nightmare...

Delivery guy A-Rong is bringing a birthday cake to his lover on Little Liuqui Island. On the ferry to Little Liuqiu, he encounters Xiao-Yu, who is rushing to a destination wedding on the island. Xiao-Yu is already late for the wedding and she has left her luggage on the taxi she took to Donggang. All she has on her now are the wedding invitation and some cigarettes....

Planet A is a metaphor for human arrogance, in which humans destroy nature and other beings, justify their behavior as "development", evaluate themselves as "good"(A), and are flattered to be on top of Earth. An experimental musical documentary project, presented as an omnibus of 15 music videos, was created with the goal of challenging the status quo and revealing the truth that lies behind what is happening on this "fantastic" planet right now, along with fighting against all discrimination within it.

In 2018, Taiwan was kept busy by noises of the election, among which the process of restarting the coal-fired power plant in Shen’ao was the most controversial and eye-catching. I followed the diving and canoeing instructor, recorded the rose coral reef and searched for a rare species of mollusk, the Epimenia babai Salvini–Plawen, in the waters of the local conservation area, and explored the ecological truth of Silence at the bottom of Deep Shen’ao together.

That Photograph is an 8mm experimental film made from an animated still. From the Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka’s photography book, KAO chose a photo of his family beholding a body and made copies of it in a myriad of ways. The photo and the camera are stationary; however, the relationship formed between them through production is in motion.

A taiyupian comedy. People argue and make up, and sometimes one's bad luck might be another's fortune.

An animated feature adapted of Brother Ox Cartoons' (牛哥漫畫).

A man was caught cheating when his girlfriend just walked in. She died in an accident immediately after the witness. The man then fell in love with another woman after a short period of mourning. The ghost of his girlfriend got furious, and revenge was about to begin….

A wife accidentally gives Grandpa's broken clock to a scavenger, unaware that it contains her husband's hidden secret money. Upon searching the scavenger's surprisingly neat and wellkept abandoned house, they are amazed to find the antique clock fixed. The traveling antique clock explores different attitudes toward life, as well as the different values placed on the old and the new.

Having lived an entire life in an exitless building of unknown height, a girl undergoes a ritualistic ascension by a religious sect allowing for her escape.

Liu Jay often invited Bao Yu home to spend the night, but was always vague to her mom when talking about the two of them. During a family gathering, Liu Jay finally confessed and made everyone awkward. She didn't speak with her parents for a few days until...

Short animation by Po Chou Chi

The Ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou’s dream of becoming a butterfly blurs reality and fantasy, reflecting a poet’s desire for freedom and eternity. The coming of Tulku draws from Buddhist classics, using Chou Meng-tieh’s life as a metaphor. His experiences at WuChang Street and his bookstand, started in 1959, led to enlightenment and loyalty to Buddha and loved ones. Influenced by Buddhism, his poems blend Zen with grace, affection, and prudence, capturing life’s essence with strength and delicacy. He closed his bookstand in 1980 due to illness.

A story about memories.

Lan is born and raised in a happy family. She has been a behaved daughter, but she starts to be late for dinner more often. Out of suspicion, her father asked her and realized that she is dating someone. When Lan brought her date home as her parents look forward to, the person shows up is not exactly who they expect.

Throughout his life, he has been active on four continents, fighting against three regimes. Some say he was ""Don Quixote, who dreams the impossible dreams;"" others say he was ""Che GUEVARA, the only remaining active revolutionary in East Asia."" However, the leader he privately admires is Arafat. His whole life was on the run. Now 97 years old, blind in one eye, figure stooped, he is still combating vigorously, his legend continues...

An elderly man cooks himself some noodles and eats them straight from the pot while watching TV by himself. He dozes off at his job as a security guard. Alone since the death of his wife, the father’s daily life is filmed by his daughter. While turning her gaze on ordinary things like garbage, keys, puppies, flies and lizards, we can almost sense the strong smells of summer and the sound of thunder at night. Suddenly, the father turns and waves to us. The father-daughter bond is expressed here in very few words.

On 30 November 1986, during the legislative election campaign, leading opposition figure HSU Hsin-liang planned to fly back to Taiwan after years of exile. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) called for a mass mobilisation to welcome him at the airport. However, they unexpectedly confronted a large number of police and military personnel on the highway to the airport. The police attempted to disperse the crowd with water cannons and tear gas numerous times. The two sides even attacked each other with rocks. The only three TV stations at the time – TTV, CTV and CTS – repeatedly broadcasted scenes of the crowd throwing rocks and accused the DPP of being a violent party, attempting to affect the election results. The airport incident that Green Team captured soon became a popular video that the DPP candidates played at their campaign headquarters to subvert official lies in a timely manner. This film is a full coverage of the incident, edited after the election.

Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?

This short documentary begins with the script. Its author is also the protagonist who works as location scout. The story is about the author himself, his mother who died before her time due to overworking and “that man” who abused his mother.

In 2016, the parties of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan submitted drafts on the marriage equality act but were confronted with anti-LGBTQ groups. Meanwhile, three pairs of same-sex partners are also facing their own family issues. Tien-Ming and Hsiang have been in love for more than 30 years, but their love is being tested with old-age and illness. Jovi and Mindy spend most of their time protesting for marriage equality, fighting for the rights of Jovi's daughter. Gu flew from Macau to live with Shinchi but is now struggling with finances and the pressure to come out to their parents...

Coming to Taiwan in the last century following Kuo-Min-Tang, it turns out that there is no home for the veterans to return to. They eventually settle down in Kang-Le Li, with all the others who are the builders of fancy metropolitan Taipei but find city housing unaffordable.

This is a love story. Colourless, tasteless, odourless. We cannot see it, until it is stimulated and glows with dazzling light.

Scottish photographer John Thomson's trip to Taiwan in 1871 left an important mark in the history. This film reinterprets the event via a photo of a hunter, taking the audience to the Siraya tribe to meet WAN, a tribe elder who knows how to sing and talk. Through his intriguing words and songs, WAN leads us back to the past as he plucks the strings.

In the past fifteen years, the Asian art market has exploded. Chinese collectors now spend more money in auction than Americans and Brits, while a new generation of Asian artists are reshaping the world’s artistic palate. My Dear Art depicts the wonders and absurdities of the Asian art market. From China, to Singapore to London, it profiles the artists, collectors, gallerists and experts who are changing the face of the art business forever and asks fundamental questions about the value and role of art in modern society.

In 2009, a DNA test report that "does not rule out the possibility" turned Chen Longqi from a witness to a defendant. After he was found guilty, he began to flee, fearing that he would not be able to clear his grievances in prison. Fortunately, four years and thirty days later, he met a judge who was willing to investigate again, and finally changed the verdict to not guilty. But from guilty to innocent, what he saw in front of him was the ruin of his career, heavy debts, the mental panic of long-term escape and hiding, and many people who wanted his help and were also suffering from unjust cases...

A story about a man and his girlfriend on a hot summer day.

Rare Taiwanese martial arts, fantasy effort starring Mei-Yao Chang.

The Land in the Middle of the Pond makes reference to the 1950’s forced displacement of the Atayal Qara community from their ancestral territory for the construction of the Shimen Reservoir – now the main water supply for Northern Taiwan. Throughout the video, we hear the voice of an elder who recalls the events which resulted in the forced displacement of her community and the impact of diaspora. In the video we see Ciwas tracing veins that run along her limbs like rivers. During the performance, later Ciwas and other Atayal women engage in an Atayal name exchange ritual, between person and plant. This customary ritual Ciwas employs like the tracing of her bloodline at the reservoir, as a symbolic act for reconnecting with her ancestral land while affirming her identity past, present and future.

A butterfly yearns for distance, a caterpillar seeks comfort. Their park life begins to change as a strange structure expands.