Exploding Cinema: New Dragon Inns
Overview of films
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Whose Utopia
Lamp factory asked a playful artist if she would realise an art project in the company. You’d think a lamp factory would know what was safe.<
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Hero
Crooks, criminals and dictators can also be heroes in the ironic approach of the artist. Or maybe everything just blends together.
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18 Days
A boyish prank but also clearly a politically motivated performance. An artist attacks a neighbouring country.
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Visitor
CGI, computer generated images, are apparently not limited to major Hollywood films. A small film can also generate a small UFO. A cloud as visitor
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Crazy Man
In the evening a strange man performs a kind of ritual for himself in a square. The film maker sees a performance artist in the man and records the
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Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Part 1-5
Yang Fudong is one of the greatest modern Chinese artists. Outside the context of museums and galleries, he also turns out to be a great film maker
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The Route
An international harbour strike forced a ship loaded without the union’s approval to sail from harbour to harbour for two years. Until it rea
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Somewhere, Late Afternoon…
The makers found a curious scale model of a high rise apartment block by the rubbish in Taipei. They saw something beautiful and now we can see it
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Yeeha formosa
The artist read an old book full of inventions about his own country Taiwan. He took the inventions seriously and translated them to our time. Or:
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Nimit
Cabin had to become a film for the King of Thailand, but the maker filmed him at home in his home village. ‘If the king is good, he has to be
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On Going
It’s a work of art and not a political pamphlet, but in a nationalist country like Taiwan, even an empty room or a pile of old newspapers has
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i-Mirror
Artist adopted the persona of a pretty young woman in Second Life. In the Internet world she became involved in a relationship with a man who also