2008 Film Intro[]
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Women Make Waves Film Festival 10/17~10/26 @ Shin Kong Cineplex(4F)Taiwan Best
Premieres
10.17 | Fri | 19:00
10.25 | Sat | 22:00 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Dancing With 37 Arts
In 2007, HSU Fang-yi became the first Asian dancer to participate in the in-house residency program of the Baryshnikov Arts Center on New York’s 37th Street. After two months where she felt both confined and elated by the program, she returned to her hometown and performedon stage with a new dance company.
10.20 | Mon| 18:10
10.24 | Fri | 12:10 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
The Unreachable Love
A sensitive documentary about four women who suffer at the hands of domestic violence. Recorded over the period of a year, the film captures their stories faithfully, including their resolve to seek protection and the difficult decision to walk away from their marriages and their former lives.
10.19 | Sun | 12:20
10.25 | Sat | 22:00 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
The Apartment
The stories of neighbors in an apartment inspired by Virginia Woolf’s assertion that women are “looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting man as twice his natural size.” A saleswoman solicits customers, a househusband conducts his daily routines and a young boy imitates his father.
10.20 | Mon | 14:30
10.21 | Tue | 14:15 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Flowers Days
In Paris, a young woman lives with her lover in an attractive apartment. She knows that she is three-weeks pregnant but hasn't decided whether to tell her partner yet. Among her daily experiences in the French capital, she must come to an important decision... whether to keep the baby or not.
10.22 | Wed | 10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35(Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Melancholy Forest
In the future, when the environment has been almost completely devastated by global warming, a man wants to escape from the hi-tech city and return to the forest where he grew up. He tells his psychologist that he is willing to undergo a special operation to have his personality transplanted into a tree.
10.22 | Wed | 10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Distance
Sisters SONG Qing and SONG Dan were abandoned by their father when they were young. As they grow older, they live their own separate lives until they receive news that their father has passed away. They go to Beijing where he had been living and uncover clues to his life including a mysterious photo of a child.
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Emma & Lucy
An elderly widow, Emma, struggles to deal with her late husband’s death. On what would have been his sixtieth birthday, she visits his grave with her only remaining friend, Lucy. But Lucy has other plans and takes Emma on a motor scooter adventure to forget recent tragedies and rediscover her youth.
10.19 | Sun | 12:20
10.25 | Sat | 22:00 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Start from the Beginning of the World
A woman’s pregnancy is a transformational adventure that is symbolic of the beginning of the world. By comparing the landscape of the female body with imagery of the earth, one can come to appreciate the female form in new ways and discover that its expression is full of infinite possibilities.
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Transactions
A mother works tirelessly for her rich clients so that she can afford to send her daughter to study in America. The film crosscuts the detailed procedures of her dressmaking with telephone conversations with her daughter discussing credit card expenses with the confusion of different currencies.
10.19 | Sun | 12:20
10.25 | Sat | 16:50 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Size 6
A woman finds herself trapped in endless household chores supporting a partner in an unsatisfying relationship. One day, she buys the perfect dress. But when she struggles to put it on, she receives no sympathy. Taking her inability to wear the dress as symbolic, she packs her suitcase and moves on, leaving the man behind.
10.22 | Wed | 10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
A Piece of Julia
Experimental film consisting of snatches of scenes in which a woman experiences the limits of love, desire and the very control she has over her own body.
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
The Skirt
On the way to school each morning, Wei-ching gives classmate Mei-tsai a ride on her bicycle. She brings an extra skirt, padded so as to make the ride more comfortable for her friend. Mei-tsai likes a boy nicknamed 214 and takes photos of him from a distance. She asks Wei-ching’s help to take the perfect picture...
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
The Light
In a living room full of memories of her late husband, blind Chun-mei sits alone listening to the radio, making jewelry out of colorful beads. She receives a regular visit from Miao-fang, an elderly neighbor who is also blind. Beneath their casual conversion under the afternoon sun are deeper concerns about their futures.
Jury's Selection
10.26 | Sun | 18:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Artemisia
Ai-tsao was born into a conservative and exclusionist minority family. After falling in love with a much older teacher of mainland descent, she abandoned her family and eloped. Decades later, her discovery that her son is gay and that her daughter has a black boyfriend makes her question choices in her own past.
10.20 | Mon | 18:10
10.24 | Fri | 12:10 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Endless Love
One day, while cleaning up the living room, Emma makes a diversion from her usual routine and picks up the photo of herself dancing with her late husband when they were young. She walks around her home, collecting every memory of him and pieces together the memories of their life together.
10.20 | Mon | 10:30
10.22 | Wed | 23:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
We, the Drivers
A light-hearted documentary that explores the experiences of passengers making their daily commute on buses driven by women in Taipei, including the infamous Aunty YU. While overlooked by modern society, the drivers’ human touch can transform the day of their passengers on their way to work.
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Go to School
Single mother Amy’s daily routine begins at 6:30 am when she must take her son and daughter on the school run. But today her car breaks down right in the middle of a busy intersection in Taipei City, causing traffic jams in all four directions. The rising heat of the summer’s day demands a decision.
10.20 | Mon | 14:30
10.21 | Tue | 14:15 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Fragrance of Memory
A short animation in which a young girl is playing indoors with her toy airplane on a windy afternoon. Suddenly she smells a familiar fragrance come through the window from outside that is just like the cologne worn by her father. The fragrance brings back unexpected memories from her childhood.
10.20 | Mon | 18:10
10.24 | Fri | 12:10 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
CH3CH2OH
Two women from different generations discuss the struggles of their lives that led up to their destructive alcoholism. Their stories are reconstructed from soundtracks collected from the Internet Archive and visualized with metaphorical image montages in this experimental black and white short film.
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Me Myself and I, #2
10.20 | Mon | 16:25 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Lover Other : The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
“Under the mask is another mask, I will never finish lifting all these faces.” Claude Cahun, born Lucie Schwob (1894-1954), was a surrealist writer, photographer, resistance fighter and lesbian. Visuals and voiceovers bring art politics and gender identity issues to the fore in this documentary about Cahun and her lover, half-sister Marcel Moore.
Miss You from the Orange County
Amy WEN has worked as a freelance independent documentary filmmaker for ten years. Her films focus on issues of community, health and medical care. Representative examples include Womb Arena, Up, Stand Up! A Tale of Citizen Initiative in Two Communities and Morning! Stories of Breast Cancer Patients in Taiwan. In 2006, she directed her first feature, The Way We Write.
Dear My Love
LEE Ching-hui has been an independent filmmaker since 1996. Her works convey a strong social awareness that demonstrate her emphasis on gender and community issues, including how we take care of the elderly. Her films have often been praised for how they present female resilience and strength. She is currently an Assistant Processor in the Visual Communication Design Department of Da-Yeh University.
Floating
Born in Penghu County in 1954, HUANG Yu-shan graduated in Western Languages and Literature at Cheng-Chi University and Cinema Studies at New York University. She has worked as a film critic, film editor, teacher and as a director of features and documentaries. Her best known works include Twin Bracelets (1989) and Spring Cactus (1999).
My Left Life
Born in 1980, WANG Yen-ni graduated from the Motion Picture Department of National Taiwan University of the Arts. Her 27 minute short film The Secret in the Wind (2006) won the prestigious Best Short Film Award at the Golden Horse Awards. Her other key works include Birthday (2003) and Plane Maker (2003).
wunawu I’m wunawu
Wuna WU emerged from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies at Tainan National University of the Arts. She is an award-winning independent documentary producer whose works are filled with unique feminine sensibilities that carry strong emotions through their aesthetics. Her important works include Echo (2002) and Farewell 1999 (2003).
Shoessssss………
CHANG Chun-i graduated from the Motion Picture Department of National Taiwan University of the Arts and Edinburgh College of Art’s Department of Visual Communication, Film & TV. She has directed commericals and worked as a producer for Voyages TV. Her key works include Breathe (1998) and Change Please (2003).
Conversation
Born in Kaohsiung City, CHUNG Pei-jung is in her second year of studying management at the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies at Tainan National University Of the Arts. Her work is distinguished by her attention to the subtle meaning of words and her unique visual language. She recently produced LOU Wai-shiou's documentary short A Piece of Julia (2008), screening in this year’s festival.
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Me Myself and I, #1
10.26| Sun | 15:45 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Cindy Sherman : Transformations
Cindy Sherman creates innovative work that explores the place of women in society. In her self-portrait photographs, she assumes the roles of fictitious characters - housewives, vamps, victims - to explore the numerous roles women play. This documentary includes a rare interview with Sherman at the time of her first exhibition in 1981.
Be Beautiful
The 24-year-old director of this short documentary expresses her lifestyle and attitude about her own body after undergoing surgery for breast cancer and debilitating chemotherapy. Although her hair is growing back, she has lost confidence in her looks and body image as she starts a new life.
Love Me
A young girl dresses in front of the mirror in all kinds of styles and admires herself in different poses, accepting all her possibilities as a woman. She makes best friends with herself, comfortable to be alone.
Travelogue
TSAI Chueh-lin has remade this ongoing work about the environment, adding traveling concepts and the representation of a woman’s body as mother nature. The film states that we should treat nature just like a women: we must love her and respect her.
One Night
There are many ways to express oneself in the internet age: with MSN, by blogging or through an online photo album. What does being offline really mean? This ambiguity is explored when an argument in the real world leads to a revelation in the virtual world.
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Solitude
An experimental short film about the relationship between self-awareness, desire and ego. Using a fragmented structure of dreams, false memories and a confusion of documentary and fictional forms.
Happy Meal
What flavor should sex be? CHEN Ting-chun’s short explores the desires of girls who have become completely unshackled from society’s constraints, crossing new boundaries of taboo. The banquet of sex that they feast upon is the happiest meal of all.
1986
Standing in water, a young girl hesitates before drowning herself. She experiences different emotions, including fear, as she undergoes a process of psychological change...
A Letter to B
LAI Ching-i’s short film is a video letter written to her dead grandfather and her sister.
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First Shots
10.18│Sat│21:45
10.21│Tue│19:50
10.25│Sat│10:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
THE WALKING MAN
In mid-1970s Paris, a female photographer meets an emaciated man by the name of Viktor Atemian. They become friends, invent surreal games and soon Atemian is writing again. After the publication of a short story, he gambles on a literary career only to find that the world has changed around him and disaster beckons..
10.22│Wed│19:25
10.23│Thu│ 15:50
10.26│Sun│22:50 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
TIE A YELLOW RIBBON
Korean adoptee Jenny works at a hip New York café while dreaming of a career as a photographer. Alone in the city after cutting ties with her adopted family after an incestuous moment with stepbrother Joe, she moves in with new roommates and begins to explore her ethnic identity and romance until Joe reappears.
10.17 │Fri │ 23:25
10.22│Wed│17:45
10.24│ Fri │14:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
MARTA
17-year-old Marek hides out with his disabled father in the mountains, afraid of being conscripted by the army. They survive by poaching animals in the forest until one day they find something unexpected in one of their traps, an unconscious female soldier. They bring her home and a new kind of war begins.
10.18│Sat│23:30
10.23│Thu│23:15
10.24│ Fri │19:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
MAYBE SWEDEN
On a reading holiday in Spain, five middle-class caucasians get an unexpected visit from an exhausted black boat refugee from Ghana who has suddenly landed in their idyllic garden. A microcosm of modern multicultural society, will they share their wealth or create new power hierarchies.
10.23│Thu│17:40
10.24│Fri │ 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
WATCH ME
Tess is a diligent a cinema studies student, haunted by a shameful incident from her past. One by one, her friends are brutally murdered after opening a spam email that is forwarded to everybody in their address book. She teams up with underground porn dealer Taku as the email curse closes in on her.
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