Afterimage for Tomorrow
Taiwan|VR360|2018|Color|20min
★ 2019 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
★ 2019 Sandbox Immersive Festival
★ 2019 NewImages Festival
- Welcome to the “ Afterlife Memory Trust.” With us, you will be selecting three pieces of your memory to relive by the time you decease. When your life terminates, we will stimulate your neurons to bring out the designated memories. Each vision lasts a light time. -
We perceive the world through eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. These sensory is stored as memory in words, pictures, sounds and moving images. With fractions of the transcribed memories, we are capable of returning to a specific point in time, which is an act of distortion and overlaying of time and space. However, memories aren’t always reliable.
A man wakes up in an unknown dimension of consciousness. What is it that he sees, hears and feels? Is it memory, virtual reality or terminal lucidity?
In Afterimage for Tomorrow, director Singing Chen collaborates with choreographer Shu-Yi Chou to perform the ineffable in memories. This metafiction film is set in a futuristic world, where memories can be uploaded and perpetuated, thus leading to the discussion of what in life is worth storing. Persistence of Vision; when an object in rapid motion vanishes from sight, the human brain creates a 0.1-0.4 seconds of optical illusion. How long will the images and memories we create today live in the future?
The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Taiwan|VR360|2022|Color|35min
★ 2023 NewImages Festival - Special Cinematographic Distinction & Public Prize
★ 2022 Venice Immersive Competition - Best Experience
★ 2022 Kaohsiung Film Festival - VR Competition - VR360 Award
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution that happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.