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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.

 

 

 

Creative Team
Director|Singing CHEN external link

Singing CHEN (born in 1974) is a Taiwanese film director, documentary filmmaker, and music composer. She graduated from Advertising in the Department of Mass Communication at Fu Jen Catholic University in 1997. Her works primarily focus on topics related to humanities and arts and culture, and she uses a magical realism approach to establish her visual style. She has received numerous international and domestic awards nominations for her work.

Presented by|Kaohsiung Film Archive external link external link external link

Presented by|The Walkers Films

Founded by filmmaker Singing CHEN, The Walkers Films is devoted to developing a cross-disciplinary approach to moving-image creation, including feature films, documentaries, television series, and virtual reality. Through long-term collaboration with artists from various fields, the company has gradually developed a diverse range of cinematic expressions and interdisciplinary artistic forms. In 2022, the VR film The Man Who Couldn't Leave won the Best Experience Award at 79th Venice International Film Festival. Current projects in production include the VR experience The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up and the feature film The Ancient Tree. Previous works such as the documentaries The Walkers and The Moving Tent, the experimental documentary short In Trance We Gaze, the television series Heaven on the 4th Floor, and the VR films Afterimage for Tomorrow and The Man Who Couldn't Leave have been selected or awarded at major international festivals, including the Venice International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Festival, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF).

Presented by|Funique VR Studio

The Man Who Couldn't Leave
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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.

 

Creative Team
Director|Singing CHEN external link

Singing CHEN (born in 1974) is a Taiwanese film director, documentary filmmaker, and music composer. She graduated from Advertising in the Department of Mass Communication at Fu Jen Catholic University in 1997. Her works primarily focus on topics related to humanities and arts and culture, and she uses a magical realism approach to establish her visual style. She has received numerous international and domestic awards nominations for her work.

Presented by|National Human Rights Museum

The National Human Rights Museum is the first museum in Asia to be set within historical sites associated with human rights abuses in a way that powerfully brings to life the history of human right s violation s during Taiwan’s martial law period. It stands as a memorial sit e that commemorates the development of human rights in Taiwan, and serves as a venue where the nation can confront its history of human rights abuses. The museum's jurisdiction encompasses Jingmei White Terror Memorial Park, Green Island White Terror Memorial Park, and the AnKang Reception House. The Human Rights Museum preserves the poignant memories of Taiwan’s many political victims and promotes the conservation, archival research, exhibits, educational outreach, and international network of artifacts dating from the martial law period. It also aids in the promotion of historical sites of injustice, and supports organizations that are dedicated to tackling contemporary human rights issues and realizing human rights principles. Through these endeavors, the museum showcases Taiwan's commitment to the universal values of democracy, freedom, and justice.

Presented by|The Walkers Films

Founded by filmmaker Singing CHEN, The Walkers Films is devoted to developing a cross-disciplinary approach to moving-image creation, including feature films, documentaries, television series, and virtual reality. Through long-term collaboration with artists from various fields, the company has gradually developed a diverse range of cinematic expressions and interdisciplinary artistic forms. In 2022, the VR film The Man Who Couldn't Leave won the Best Experience Award at 79th Venice International Film Festival. Current projects in production include the VR experience The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up and the feature film The Ancient Tree. Previous works such as the documentaries The Walkers and The Moving Tent, the experimental documentary short In Trance We Gaze, the television series Heaven on the 4th Floor, and the VR films Afterimage for Tomorrow and The Man Who Couldn't Leave have been selected or awarded at major international festivals, including the Venice International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Festival, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF).

Presented by|Outland Film Production

Founded in 2015 by producer, LIN Shih-Ken, Outland Film Production is a collective of filmmakers focusing on film production, project development, international co-production and distribution. We are dedicated to producing films that push boundaries and deliver high commercial performances, and also bring together Taiwanese and international talents to create a platform for collaborations of all types of art forms. Outland Film Production have produced critical-acclaimed films that are also well received among mainstream audiences, such as The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017), Dear Tenant (2020), Coo-Coo 043 (2022) ,TV series Detention (2020) , VR short The Man Who Couldn't Leave(2022).

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    8/11(Mon.)
    15:00

    8/12(Tue.)
    10:30

    8/13(Wed.)
    12:00

    8/14(Thu.)
    13:30

    8/15(Fri.)
    15:00

    8/16(Sat.)
    10:30

    8/17(Sun.)
    12:00

    8/18(Mon.)
    13:30

    8/19(Tue.)
    15:00

    8/20(Wed.)
    10:30
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