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?

I Love (080)

A disturbing close portrait of a young man who, like all other men in Taiwan, must enlist in the army. Dreaming of saving enough money to enter an Australian art college after having been discharged, he is gradually crushed by the corruption, the verbal violence, and the hypocrisy that festers in the military hierarchy.

Swimming on the Highway

A self-destructive and anxious 30-year-old man and his 26-year-old friend with a camera. It's a personal film about their relationship in the last years of a life - battling the HIV virus. The flamboyant man flirts with the camera while the filmmaker is tormented, forcing himself to go on filming. Their sincerity when facing the undefeatable facts is moving.

Taiwan Spectrum: When Camera Comes in Between

Films

A Rolling Stone

A Rolling Stone

2012
Taiwan
53min
沈可尚
SHEN Ko-shang

Dogs with Man

Dogs with Man

2002
Taiwan
88min
黃信堯
HUANG Hsin-yao

I Love (080)

I Love (080)

1999
Taiwan
58min
楊力州
YANG Li-chou

Somewhere Over the Cloud

Somewhere Over the Cloud

2007
Taiwan
102min
蕭美玲
HSIAO Mei-ling

Swimming on the Highway

Swimming on the Highway

1998
Taiwan
49min
吳耀東
WU Yao-tung
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