The film observes Taipei through surveillance cameras. In an era of digital audio and video, it shows how Taipei is speedily stored and transmitted and how it is unable to be deciphered accurately. Could these motionless and lifeless surveillance images construct a lively and meaningful reality in Taipei?
Also 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. -
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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Taiwan
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
