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“100 Ways to See Transgender” Exhibition Shares a Wide Range of Transgender Experiences

·November 11, 2022·6 min read

This past weekend, over 200 participants came to see the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights’ (TAPCPR) "看見跨性別藝文展 100 Ways to See Transgender" exhibition at 二空間 SPACE TWO. Since their first Transgender Film Festival in 2020, TAPCPR has made it a tradition to do larger scale public engagement programming around transgender issues every year in the month of November. Last year was the second Transgender Film Festival, and this year is the 100 Ways to See Transgender exhibition Read More

Japanese Film “by the window” Meditates on Love And Creativity in a Naturalistic Fashion

English Film

·November 8, 2022·2 min read

by the window, directed by Rikiya Imaizumi, proves masterful. The film does not shy away from tackling complex issues, such as the nature of love or creativity, and approaches them in a wonderfully naturalistic fashion Read More

“Mountain Woman” Depicts Human Cruelty and Desperation in a Japanese Village

English Film

·November 4, 2022·2 min read

With its story about an outcast family, “Mountain Woman” explores humanity’s darkness against a beautiful backdrop of Japan’s countryside Read More

“Dealing With Dad” Aims for Asian American Family Drama but Has Mixed Results

English Film

·November 1, 2022·3 min read

Dealing With Dad has all the makings of a solid comedy about an Asian American family. Nevertheless, the film simply fails to come to life somehow. Maybe it’s because the entire movie feels tonally off-key. Perhaps it has to do with its near-complete lack of soundtrack, an odd choice outside of the art house genre . Or, it may have to do with how few of the movie’s jokes hit the mark Read More

“Tank Fairy” Proves A Spunky Queer Take on a Fixture of Taiwanese Life

English Film

·October 28, 2022·2 min read

Tank Fairy is a spunky queer take on a traditional fixture of Taiwanese urban life–the deliveryperson, invariably middle-aged and male, that brings canisters of gas that apartments use to boil hot water for cooking and showering Read More

“Dear Corky” Pays Tribute to a Beloved Photographer of Chinatown

English Film

·October 25, 2022·2 min read

“Dear Corky” is a tribute to the photographer Corky Lee, who spent decades documenting Asian American life, and died in 2021 from COVID-19. The short documentary film was assembled from footage shot of Lee before his death, though this may not have been with the aim of creating a documentary about Lee at first Read More

Searching for the Bird of Myth: A Review of Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern (尋找神話之鳥)

English Film

·October 21, 2022·3 min read

Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern, directed by Taiwanese environmentalist filmmaker Liang Chieh-Te, is a masterful depiction of the eponymous endangered species. The film goes a long way in showing not only the beauty of the creature and providing many revealing looks into its life, but also the Herculean efforts of an international team of conservationists and researchers to protect a species that may have less than one hundred remaining individuals Read More

Calling Attention to the Plight of Chained Dogs: A Review of Jia (枷/家)

English Film

·October 14, 2022·4 min read

Jia, a short documentary film produced in association with the Taiwan Animal Equality Association, is an advocacy film made to inform the public about chained dogs. Chained dogs are dogs who are kept chained all year round, rarely with daily walks or the usual treatments that reach the minimum threshold of appropriate care Read More

Taiwan’s Founding Mothers?: Untold Herstory

English Film

·October 11, 2022·5 min read

Give us art forms that tell an honest history not a whitewashed one of so-called founding fathers. If America, for example, needs more 1619 stories than it does 1776 ones, then Taiwan needs more stories about 228 and the White Terror Read More

The Cross-Straits Politics of Global Panda Health

English Life

·October 7, 2022·3 min read

Tuan Tuan, one of four giant pandas displayed in the Taipei Zoo, has become ill with brain lesions. MRI imagery from late September shows that Tuan Tuan has local large-scale necrosis and edema on the left-side of his brain. There is local small-scale edema on the right side of his brain. Read More

Fake It Real Examines the Relation Between Truth and Fiction in the Age of Disinformation

English Events

·October 5, 2022·2 min read

Fake It Real (真相碎片) is an intriguing exhibition at the Taipei Digital Art Center, which runs until October 10th. The majority of the exhibition, however, is not located at the Digital Art Center itself, but at the National Science Education Center. The exhibition concerns itself with the spread of fake news and disinformation globally, featuring works reflecting both Taiwanese and international artists Read More

Impressions of the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival (TAxT)

Art English

·October 1, 2022·5 min read

The month-long extravaganza of the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival is being held until October 9th at the Taoyuan Arts Center in northern Taiwan Read More