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Transformers: The Premake
355 YouTube videos constitute a critical as well as funny investigation into the global big-budget film industry, amateur video-making, and the politiPublished on: -
Yao a yao, yao dao waipo qiao
Gong Li being beautiful and bad as a gangster’s moll in the 1930s in China.Published on: -
The Terrorizers
Unrelated stories unfold simultaneously in an unfriendly Taipei, involving a photographer, a writer, a doctor and the mysterious ‘White Chick’. EdwardPublished on: -
Wo xin ren shih de peng yo
Penetrating documentary about AIDS, a sickness that is spreading like wild fire in its maker’s home country.Published on: -
River of Exploding Durians
In commercials, Malaysia is heaven on earth. Palm trees, white beaches and clear blue seas. In that same country, an extremely polluting factory has bPublished on: -
Stranded in Canton
The Swede Månsson developed the concept for this improvised feature with director Li Hongqi (Winter Vacation). Their revealing, humorous story about aPublished on: -
The Sandwich Man
Three poignant shorts reflecting on post-colonial Taiwanese society. Adapted by the great scriptwriter Wu Nian-chen from popular nativist literature oPublished on: -
On the Beat
Black comedy about the everyday conflict between tradition and progress in a Peking police station. An influx of semi-criminal newcomers from the counPublished on: -
Father and Sons
In this documentary, Wang points his patient, poetic camera eye at the sad existence of a father and two sons whom he met while making…Published on: -
Li Wen at East Lake
As with everything in life, the same goes for East Lake, a threatened lake near the expanding mega city of Wuhan. You can get worked…Published on: