中文Filmmaker Nights Taipei: Short Film Development Project
4 short films were produced as a team effort by local filmmakers especially for this program at 2018 Urban Nomad.
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Shorts 4: Connected/Disconnected
This program of ten short films from Taiwan, the US, Germany and Thailand has a total length of 82 minutes and will be followed by filmmaker Q&A.
Shorts 3: The Show Must Go On
This program of five short films includes fiction, animation and documentary films from Taiwan and Spain. The program has a total length of 85 minutes and will be followed by filmmaker Q&A.
Shorts 2: Flesh and Blood
This program of five short films includes fiction, animation and documentary films from Taiwan, the UK and Spain. The program has a total length of 87 minutes and will be followed by filmmaker Q&A.
Shorts 1: Hello Stranger
This program of four short films includes fiction and documentary films from Taiwan, The US and Germany. The program has a total length of 83 minutes and will be followed by filmmaker Q&A.
White Rabbit
A quirky lesbian relationship comedy and a millennial satire on wannabe artists and identity politics starring Korean-American comedienne Vivien Bang. (Daryl Wein / 2018 / US)
Metal Politics Taiwan
Lead singer for the heavy metal band Chthonic, Freddy Lim, was recently elected to Taiwan’s legislature. This documentary follows his transformation from rock star to politician. (Marco Wilms / 2018 / Germany, Taiwan / Q&A)
Face the Earth
CLOSING FILM: Taiwanese performance artist Yang Chin-chih has built an exceptional career in New York over the last three decades, playing the part of victim of environmental catastrophe in large public performances. (Huang Ming-chuan / 2017 / Taiwan / Taipei premier / Q&A)
The Maribor Uprising: A Live Participatory Film
A Slovenian protest turns to revolt, and the audience is invited into the decision making process. Do you peacefully occupy? Or storm the barricades? (Milton Guillen, Maple Razsa / 2017 / USA, Slovenia / Special interactive screening)
Wall Writers
This is the story of graffiti, before graffiti was art. A look into wall tagging as the origin of an art form. (Roger Gastman / 2016 / US / with POW!WOW! Taiwan)
The War Show
A multi-award winning personal video memoire of the Arab Spring in Syria from 2011 to 2013, beginning with hopeful protest and spiraling into civil war and death. (Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon / 2016 / Denmark)
The New Radical
What is radicalism in the digital age? This documentary embeds itself with a new breed of anarchists who use digital technologies, from the 3D-printed gun to Dark Wallet. (Adam Bhala Lough / 2017 / USA)
Virus Tropical
A beautifully animated and very modern coming of age story of a girl in South America, adapted from the highly popular graphic novel by Power Paola. (Santiago Caicedo / 2017 / Colombia)
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
One of the biggest surf films in recent years, this doc tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big wave surfer and oddball athlete Laird Hamilton. (Rory Kennedy／2017／US)
A Heart of Love
A cold-blooded love affair between two Warsaw artists, in which not only their lives become intertwined, but their art as well. (Lukasz Ronduda / 2017 / Poland)
To Stay Alive, A Method
When Iggy Pop narrates read Michel Houellebecq’s essay “To Stay Alive”, he realized it was his own life story. Here they collaborate to adapt the essay into a movie. (Arno Hagers, et al / 2016 / The Netherlands, Belgium)
The Road Movie
A critically acclaimed experimental film of the absurd and frightening, all shot from dashboard cameras in Russia. (Dmitrii Kalashnikov / 2016 / Belarus)
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
She ignited the UK punk movement with Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren, then continued to redefine British fashion for more than 40 years. (Lorna Tucker / 2018 / UK)
Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits
OPENING FILM: Founded in London by four teen girls in 1976, the Slits were the world’s first all girl punk rock group. They toured with The Clash and made the Sex Pistols look like “choir boys.” (William Badgley / 2017 / UK / Taiwan premier / Q&A)
Nico, 1988
The “original goth girl”, Nico lived a second life after Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground. Hers is the story of a fallen star, and a quest for redemption. (Susanna Nicchiarelli / 2017 / Italy, Belgium / Taiwan premier)
Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
Former French porn star Ovidie investigates the new “Monsanto of porn” and how technology has completely transformed the porn industry. (Ovidie / 2017 / France)
Bunch of Kunst
British punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called “the voice of Britain” by their fans, “Britain’s angriest band” by the Guardian and “The world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band” by Iggy Pop. (Christine Franz / 2017 / Germany)
Parallel Planes
A video mix-tape that journeys across the American indie music landscape, paying homage to the DIY spirit and asking basic questions about the nature of independence and music. (Nicole Wegner / 2017 / Germany / Taiwan premier / Q&A)
Garage Rockin’ Craze
A weird and savage journey into the heart of underground Tokyo rock and roll scene and the DIY ethic that keeps it thriving. (Mario Cuzic / 2016 / Japan)