Hsu Che-yu
HSU Che-yu (1985, Taiwan) earned his master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu works as an artist who primarily creates animations, videos, and installations that feature the relationships between media and memories. He is a 2020 laureate of HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium) and continued his education at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. In 2022, he began his two-year art residency at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun (2015), Re-rupture (2017), Single Copy (2019, doc), Rabbit 314, The Unusual Death of a Mallard (2020), The Making of Crime Scenes (2022), Blank Photograph (2023)
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Hsu Che-yu op IFFR
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Blank Photograph
Hsu Che-yu | 20' | France | World premiere
Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men. -
Single Copy
Hsu Che-yu | 21' | Taiwan | European premiere
An experimental biography of Chung-I, one half of a once-conjoined twin, whose body is digitally scanned and cast in ceramic. -
Re-rupture
Hsu Che-yu | 15' | Taiwan | European premiere
Artist Hsu Che-yu unearths and reanimates forgotten moments in Taipei’s history, one of which includes a guitar solo eight storeys up in the air. -
The Making of Crime Scenes
22' | France | -
In this portrait of film producer and gangster Wu Dun, forensic scanning is used to restage his killing of writer Henry Liu.