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For its grandma's funeral, the child goes to its father's hometown. Facing the argument with his wife, the hostile relatives and his mother's death, the father cries before his child for the first time.
The film is about the self-presentation manners of an individual in a group. It consists of four sections: Looking-Glass Self, Impression Management, Herd Behavior, and Defense Mechanism. The animation ends with the protagonist revealing his true self and opening his heart wide to deliver the core of this creation: show your true self.
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.
after 10 years in prison, Facu Silva returns to tehran to find out his wife is dead. he decides to investigate who killed his wife and at the same time starts having an affair with a woman that is a suspect. and meets an old man who might be key to the investigation...
In 1995 five hundred dock workers in Liverpool were fired for refusing to cross a picket line, sparking the Dockers' dispute of the 1990s. In protest, when the Neptune Jade – a Mersey-loaded ship – set sail from England dock workers across the globe refused to allow the ship to dock and unload its cargo – first at Oakland CA., then Vancouver, Canada and then Yokahoma and Kobe, Japan. The ship eventually sailed to Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan where it was disbanded and sold. Neptune Jade stands as a significant event in the dock workers struggle and of their international solidarity. In The Route, Chen re-presents history by interspersing archive film footage with new footage of a picket line staged by Dockers at Port of Kaohsiung. A symbolic connection between workers in Liverpool and Taiwan, the artist's home, is created, echoing the Dockers' phrase 'The world is our picket line'.
By constructing, re-filming and hand animating the photographs and objects, island is no more an geographical term, but a state of mind, in which the film as a process and medium to express nostalgia and reexamine my relationship among land, nation and identity.
This is a love story. Colourless, tasteless, odourless. We cannot see it, until it is stimulated and glows with dazzling light.
Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.
There’s a new super-hero on the streets and she’ll take on anything the city throws at her
Sometimes forces greater than the grid forces their way in.
An explosion of grace and aerial symmetry at 70 beats a second.
Talk about ya inmates taking over the asylum!!
In these freckled, disjointed montages of everyday life, we see a faint hint of an upcoming festival as the theatre troupe sound its drums; the children either sit and gaze, or clamber to see the lead actress. This 8mm roll of film was found after LONG Sih-liang passed away in 2012 and is now shown for the first time in 51 years.
This calm, family-centered film documents the first 18 months of the life of the director’s eldest daughter. The film follows the young baby’s faltering footsteps, as she takes account of the wide world through her tiny body, and preserves the cherished moments of the family.
Once upon a time in a world full of pirate products, we watched monster movies and grew up. But those monsters disappeared when we finally became adults. One day, a teacher told in class that creation came from the past we neglect, that is how I started to contact a monster fan just like me.
a journey of search; a search of journey
As the aftermath of World War II and the Chinese Civil War morphed into the Cold War, Taiwan was ruled under martial law from 1949 to 1987. During the height of the White Terror in the 1950s, thousands of suspected Communists and subversives were arrested; many of them simply disappeared forever. In 1993 a forgotten graveyard of 201 unclaimed victims was rediscovered at Liuzhangli on the outskirts of Taipei. Experimental filmmaker Lin Hsin-I’s Letter #69 explores the violence and injustice that still haunt Taiwan today through the letters of Shi Shui Huan, a political prisoner during the White Terror—all the way up to her last letter before being executed, a blank piece of paper.-UCLAFilm&TV
For more than two decades, internationally acclaimed artist Chen Chieh-jen has illuminated the deep impact of power on bodies and architecture. Here he explores a pair of sites built by the Japanese colonial government in the early 20th century: the Losheng Leprosy Sanatorium and the Taipei Prison. The first was on the outskirts of Taipei, the second in the heart of the city. Both were used for controlling marginal populations; both continued to operate long after the Japanese left; and both were eventually torn down for urban redevelopment. Across its four sections linking different times, places and people, Realm of Reverberations reveals cycles of construction and destruction, and the ironies of emotional attachment and historical detachment.-UCLAFilm&TV
It is difficult to be accustomed to isolation. Yet sometimes people are unwilling to leave where they are, even if they are alone and others are just somewhere close. The fear of facing the new and hesitation stop them leaving their comfort zones. They are waiting for someone else to walk to their front actively and the situation might change.
A short animated silent film where about a girl who had a kite.
Set in the near future. An unexpected nuclear disaster strikes and changes everyone’s fate. As the law and order are destroyed, the world descends into chaos. Chiu-Meng, a military officer, has been looking for her missing son since the catastrophe happened. Driven by desperation, she turns herself into a cold-blooded swordswoman indifferent to people around her. Only when she runs into a man and a boy who insist on doing good deeds does she realize that there is still hope in the world. Nevertheless, they soon get trapped by a group of cannibals. Chiu-Meng now has to fight to protect this dim ray of hope.
Focusing on Yunlin County, we see the area covered in smog and the Jhuoshushi River drying up. The film can be seen as a chronicle of the environmental disasters resulted from industrial development, which ends with the Tianjin explosions in 2015.
Little Scissors, a little young girl always dreaming of becoming a space hero. Today is her first day of preschool. Surprisingly, she met the alien attack. Will she fight with them bravely? An incredible and fantasy story is keep going!
A reporter is following a story, but realizes gradually that he is becoming a character in it.
In 1962 China, Japanese warlords hold the power and are wielding it with no regard to ethics or propriety. Two private entities, the Nagoa Isam Transportation Company and the Bai Loon Forwarding Agency, have taken competition to the extreme, wreaking havoc and violence as a means to hold onto whatever sovereignty they may have. Loyalty no longer exists as residents watch out only for their own interests.
The heart is a battlefield where struggles between good and evil, light and darkness rage.Frostlight, a naive girl, disregards the fortuneteller's warnings, and tries too hard in keeping Westwind's heart. Her attempts catch the attention of Asura, and a war breaks out. Frostlight quickly boards a mysterious ship and departs on a perilous and fantastic journey. This strange ship carries a cast of helpless, tormented souls as it drifts through a mysterious space, unable to make port. The souls fear that Asura could strike at any moment and send them to the Asuran Realm, never to return.
This is an unfinished [Shaw Brothers] production entitled THE NOCTURNAL KILLER. It's possibly an aka for the above mentioned THE LITTLE POISONOUS DRAGON. It's just one of many unfinished films that were started at Shaw's and abandoned for whatever reason. With between 40 and 50 movies being scheduled throughout 1971 and 1972, some productions were scrapped, or morphed into an entirely different picture. Curiously, the plot and Shi Szu's attire appears similar to HEROES OF SUNG (1973; it was filmed under different titles as well), a film that did starred the actress and Lo Lieh, but not the Taiwanese actor, An Ping. - coolasscinema.com, Dec 2010
The well-known performance group Baixue Variety Troupe is formed by four students from the National Taipei University of the Arts who love to perform. For five years, they have insisted on creative costume performances.