Homeless

Homeless

羅興階LO Shin-Chieh
2003
  • Taiwan
52min
Colour
  • Betacam SP

Homeless

Synopsis

On January 1, 2003, President Chen Hsui-Bian declared: "I have felt the people's anguish and pain, and would like to express my gratitude and best wishes to the hard-working people of Taiwan and their unrelenting strivings." "A new year had just begun. I saw him ride his bicycle through the bustling city streets. I followed him like a paparazzi journalist. I wanted to know about him. " The director is a veteran documentary filmmaker on labor disputes, environmental issues, and social movements. This is his first attempt at taking a single individual as the subject of his documentation. In the form of a feature length film, "The camera struggles with my control and my ideas. With elements of the surreal, a simple story becomes infused with the illusory dreamscape of humanity and faith."