Super Taboo
Chao chi jin ji
Based on a pornographic book from the 1980s, Taiwanese artist Su Hui-yu’s immersive two-channel video brings frozen tableaux of a forest orgy to life. Actor Chin Shih-Chieh (Edward Yang’s The Terrorizers) reads out a titillating story from the pages of the book, after which he recalls his childhood memories of letting his erotic imagination run wild. Accompanied by a crackling drone soundtrack, the camera tracks naked bodies and finds the surrounding river turned vibrant pink and yellow.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
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Deletion
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El cuento de Antonia
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Into All That Is Here
Something crawls through the earth’s slimy darkness and explodes in a riot of colour, images and sensations full of humour, passion and lus
Film details
- Country of production
- Taiwan
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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