The Story of Southern Islet, the debut of Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, is a stunning film on every level. It is a film that is not only technically accomplished but which has an intricate and distinctive beauty to it Read More
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If you are like me and consider Crazy Rich Asians one of the worst Asian American films ever made, you might very well enjoy Minari Read More
Temple festivals in Taiwan often seem to be a mixture of the sacred and the profane. Sure, temples are places of worship—but temple festivities often have elements of what would otherwise be considered “low” culture incorporated into them Read More
如果有人跟我一樣認定《瘋狂亞洲富豪》是亞裔美國人電影裡的大爛片，那很可能也會和我一樣非常欣賞《夢想之地》這部片。甚至可以說，《夢想之地》在亞美人影壇上是《瘋狂亞洲富豪》的完美鏡像。從主題到對於白人優越性（whiteness）的探討，《夢想之地》和《瘋狂亞洲富豪》是站在完全相反的位置。《瘋狂亞洲富豪》是關於極少數的那 1% 富豪族群，而《夢想之地》則是關於那剩下的 99% 一般人。對《瘋狂亞洲富豪》裡的角色來說，白人優越性可說是目標，但對《夢想之地》的角色來說，只求可以在他們的世界裡面生存、活著。《瘋狂亞洲富豪》把喧鬧與極端視為美德，而《夢想之地》則尋求著平衡。 Read More
To be a child of globalization comes with an inconceivable sense of perpetual displacement—a disturbance of sort: the fault lines between distant societies or “civilizations” are deeply felt in the space you occupy, the people you interact with, and the commonplace cross-cultural misunderstandings you observe Read More
In the hands of a lesser director, Wrath of Desire would not be the sum of its parts. In fact, the film would be something of a train wreck. However, in Zero Chou’s capable hands, Wrath of Desire is not only a stylistically distinctive film, but one which is thought-provoking. The film is one of six about LGBTQ-related issues by Chou, which she plans to shoot in East Asian cities. Chou is one of Taiwan’s best-known contemporary queer film directors Read More
Green Grass, Pale Fire follows three Taiwanese runaway miners in 1935 who are on the run from the Japanese army. Stranded in the jungles of Iriomote Island, Okinawa prefecture, after having escaped from the infamous “Green Jail” coal mine, the three hope to find a way home by boat. Given this setting, the short film explores Taiwan’s Japanese colonial period, which lasted from 1895 to 1945 Read More
The short film, Night is Young, directed by Kwok Zune, follows a Hong Kong taxi driver on one night in 2019, sometime during the protests that broke out in reaction to a proposed extradition bill that allowed for the deportation of criminal suspects to China. It was feared that this bill would be deleterious to political freedoms in Hong Kong, with the bill used to deport pro-democracy advocates to China to face charges Read More
位於台北的白色恐怖景美紀念園區，是國家人權博物館管理的兩個白色恐怖園區之一。如果不了解台灣的歷史，這個公園看起來就像是一個古樸的老校園，但是正如園區名稱所顯示的，這是專為紀念白色恐怖的歷史遺跡。白色恐怖受害者正是在這裡接受審訊、審判和監禁（槍殺現場在不同地點，現已拆除）。 Read More
Green Jail is a documentary that chronicles the twilight days of Hashima Yoshiko, the last living Taiwanese resident of Iriomote Island, the second-largest island of Okinawa Prefecture Read More
There are no answers in the vast endless ocean...only questions Read More
Get the Hell Out is an absurdist zombie comedy that starts out well enough Read More