The Spirit of 8
For seventeen years, this young man has been haunted by the guilty memory of something he did as an eight-year old boy. The memory became a kind of crutch, though it was really a curse. At twenty-...
Viva Tonal--The Dance Age
"Viva Tonal--The Dance Age" goes beyond the dichotomy of colonizer and colonized. Opening with a popular Taiwanese-language song, it revisits the sites of history with Grandma Ai-ai, former mega pop...
Bohemians in Taipei: The Life of Theatre
"Bohemians in Taipei: The Life of Theatre" documents a group of artists living in Taipei who have committed themselves to creating and performing theatre. Some are no longer young, but theatre work...
Farewell,1999
The nearness of people , the familiarity of objects, all ends as distance. 2003, I was searching for the days before 1999, when my mother was still alive. 2003, my memory still bore those traces....
Yuning's Return
"Yuning's Return" chronicles the life of a female migrant worker as she struggles to support her family, which is falling apart. Yuning worked as a domestic worker in Taipei, sending all her money...
My Rehearsing Marriage
In 2000, Hui, a man with cerebral palsy, spent 200,000 NT dollars to marry a Cambodian beauty, whose name is Qiang Nawei. Returning to visit her hometown, she was kidnapped by her marriage agency, an...
Memorandum on Happiness
After "Beautiful Boys", queer director Mickey CHEN presents his new work, "Memorandum on Happiness". This is a documentary about sweetness and hurt, pursuit and loss. It is a bluebird's song of...
Ocean Fever
What is it about the Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival that attracts so many bands? Called The Ocean Music Festival in Chinese, this annual rock and roll contest was first organized by Taipei county in 2000....
Remember the Coral Reef
"Remember the Coral Reef" is a documentary jointly created by environmental researchers who have spent over 10 years observing and recording marine life around Taiwan, and poets and musicaians whose...