Escasso
‘Professional dog walker’ Rose invites a film crew to tour the home she has been squatting.
15'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
Artist Hsu Che-yu (The Making of Crime Scenes, IFFR 2022) blends his digitally animated exploration of the relation between media and memory with an account of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men, a bomb maker who idolised Japan’s suicidally-inclined United Red Army.
The black-and-white images, presented as still frames, are patchy and unreal, like our memories; both physical places and human figures disintegrate – an oblique and compelling testament, probing unseen acts and murky motivations.
The black-and-white images, presented as still frames, are patchy and unreal, like our memories; both physical places and human figures disintegrate – an oblique and compelling testament, probing unseen acts and murky motivations.
– Adrian Martin
IFFR 2023
- 20'
- Taiwan
- 2023
- Director
- Hsu Che-yu
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Taiwan, France
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- 空白相片
- Language
- Mandarin
- Producers
- Chen Yung-Shuang, Eric Prigent
- Production Company
- Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
- Sales
- Hsu Che-yu
- Screenplay
- Chen Wan-yin
- Cinematography
- Chen Kuan-yu
- Editor
- Hsu Che-yu
- Sound Design
- Geoffrey Durcak
- Music
- Sonic Deadhorse
- Cast
- Yang Ru-Men
Also in this combined programme
Now I’m in the Kitchen
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter.
5'
United States
IFFR 2023
One Home to Another
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Porcupine
A young man broadcasts poses from an urban ruin: a portrait of our times.
13'
Belgium
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Hsu Che-yu
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Taiwan, France
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- 空白相片
- Language
- Mandarin
- Producers
- Chen Yung-Shuang, Eric Prigent
- Production Company
- Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
- Sales
- Hsu Che-yu
- Screenplay
- Chen Wan-yin
- Cinematography
- Chen Kuan-yu
- Editor
- Hsu Che-yu
- Sound Design
- Geoffrey Durcak
- Music
- Sonic Deadhorse
- Cast
- Yang Ru-Men
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023