The Glamorous Boys of Tang
In artist Su Hui-yu’s signature style, a moody slow-motion pan captures a wild, glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy during the Tang dynasty. The film is an invocation of scenes from 1985 Taiwanese cult film Tang Chao Chi Li that only existed in the screenplay, unfilmed until now due to what can only be imagined as budgetary restrictions and censorship pressures during the Martial Law era. Presented without narrative context, the orgiastic murder scene plays out like an unsettling nightmare.
Also in this combined programme
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ALTIPLANO
Ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and coloured lakes transform into a vibrating Ektachrome landscape full of evocative visual rhythms in color
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Nehemías
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider.
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Freedom of Movement
In the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first gold medal, running barefoot.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Taiwan
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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