Breathless Taipei
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
The office for encouraging tourism to Taiwan, and Taipei in particular, will not be happy with this programme. Taipei, the hypermodern, but also hyper-hectic and hyper-chaotic Asian city that has grown out of all proportion is portrayed in these films sharply and without reservation. A breathtaking city in the good sense of the word, but also in the bad sense. (GjZ)
In this combined programme
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Taipei_Scan
A clarifying glance at the houses in the newspaper. Dreams of a life in another part of the world. The reality of the unreal. -
Respire
Image of an oppressive and oppressed world. A future with gas masks and indefinable clouds and storms. -
tra TAIPEI verse
Short film in which images from security cameras provide a surprising picture of Taipei. And it all looks real, but the film maker couldn’t help… -
Desolate Silence
No one understood why two successful female students committed suicide in an anonymous hotel room in Taipei. The film provides a picture of today’s Ta -
4F (the Fourth Floor)
Atmospheric portrait of a staircase. To everyone else, just a staircase, but not to the director. He has his own memories. Nominated for the Tiger…