On July 24, 2012, ZHU Rikun finds police officers standing outside his hotel room. ZHU is a human rights activist, and he knew he could count on a hostile reception in Jiangxi Province. Other activists have been beaten up here, arrested for no reason and even tortured. The police want to see his ID, but it proves to be more than that.
The Backup Tapes from Moon and Mars
In 2012 eteam visits Mars and Moon in Pennsylvania. Their approach is documentary, positioning themselves as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were simulated environments on Earth, a training ground for eventual living on the planet Mars and Earth's satellite, the Moon.
This is Roberto Delgado
What is an individual, if not a blot at the window, in the photo of a building? A point that, after zooming in with a Google-Earth-type programme, would become a blurred-out face like so many others? On the images of his district in northern Madrid, Roberto DELGADO - not seen on screen - talks about himself.
Substanz
This cinematic composition examines the randomness and distance of the footage shot after the catastrophe in Japan in April 2011. In order to attain a new level of perception by overlapping image and sound and therefore recreating a sensation of being lost in a foreign country under state of emergency.
Hua-Shan-Qiang
A man who has died from burning himself comes to a paper house, where Golden Boy and Jade Lady await to take him to the Western Paradise. He climbs up to the Hua-Shan-Qiang, and his soul goes through a fable of national identity.
The Queen
Her crown is so heavy, they have to remove weight from it since she cannot carry it and it would fall off her head. But now she doesn't want anything else to be done with it because she looks so pretty.
The Visit
In a care home surrounded by magical forest deep in the middle of nowhere, the residents are leading their quiet and unruffled lives. Only on Sundays they break the routines since it's the visiting day, and yet they seem to spend it on waiting for the visitors that never show up.
A Rolling Stone
Father and son who are unable to communicate with each other, and yet they're the only companion to each other. The son is physically a 30-year-old man but mentally a 13-year-old kid. The father is 50 years old, and he has to play various roles to hold up the family. What exactly is the nature of their relationship under such circumstances? Call it paternal love? What else is mixed in it?
Somewhere Over the Cloud
A series of emails that the filmmaker wrote to her late mentor, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert KRAMER (1939- 1999), are woven throughout the plot of a story as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are re-examined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter.
Dogs with Man
Is Taiwan more than a pet to be cajoled and patted by the USA? Ah- bien regularly goes for a walk on the streets with Mr. KO. But A-bien is a stray dog, not the President of ROC. Everyday, Mr. KO takes Ah- bien to the streets to protest. He believes in his ideas - a kind of Don Quixote transplanted to the Far East. The world on TV and the world we live in. Which one is more real?
