FREITAGKINO # 1 : Taiwanale
11 February 2011
FreitagKino # 1
February 18, 2011
Friday 20 - 23
Parallel to the 61th Berlinale 2011, tamtamART presents the first FreitagKino Project. This is going to be 3 sessions of projection on 3 Friday nights, starting from 18 FEB, 2011 at 8 pm until 11 pm. For the first session, we will focus on Taiwanese film / video / image, and for that we have more than 10 films in 3 sections, including art and experimental video, documentary film, and animation film.
PROGRAMM
20:00 – 20:55 Art and Experimental video
21:10 – 22:30 Documentary film
Art and Experimental video
Wen-Gui I 2008 I 10'13'' I Jin-Da Lin
Time is unfolded by the bright, delicate reality；The accumulated memories and spaces are released. This does not suggest that the past is evaded. Mansions not only contain memories but release the past and future. Thus, passing through time, the rectangle images are like windows without glasses. Innumerous dust of the ancient and the new is floating, and then making soft and real sounds when it is grounded
Time is unfolded by the bright, delicate reality；The accumulated memories and spaces are released. This does not suggest that the past is evaded. Mansions not only contain memories but release the past and future. Thus, passing through time, the rectangle images are like windows without glasses. Innumerous dust of the ancient and the new is floating, and then making soft and real sounds when it is grounded
Jing-Da Lin re-condenses “somewhere” of his deep memory through shooting video image of location and landscape that memory has been placed. In other words, the artist is not reproducing similarity between two locations by shifting spaces horizontally, but is constantly taking a new location at a fictional spot in past memories. This kind of fiction allows him to produce narratives in a trip recorded without end. Furthermore, these narratives can be reassembled to connect to some fragmented memories which are deliberated anew by the artist.
Silent Day I 2008 I 28' I Wei Chen
A father killed his wife....and he's going to spend next 48 hours in his house, with their autistic son.....
Wei Chen, born 1987 in Taipei, Taiwan. Currently living in Berlin and studying at the University of Arts Berlin.
The Other Shore I 2010 I 15' I Ning Huang
By what kind of position and posture they will make a rendezvous, while people encountered in a balance beam: meaningless, expected, resistance, cooperative, yielding, bully, submissive…. Regardless of the rendezvous come with the success or failure, meeting that part is a processing; however, it is also a result when the two men meet up after the debated.
Ning Huan was born in Taiwan. He received his masters degree from Arts’ National Hsinchu University of Education in Taiwan. He has exhibited widely internationally. Important shows include the “Art Shit↑”30 th Asolo International Art film Festival, Asolo, Italy(2011), Shanghai Taipei Cultural& Creative Industry Expo, Shanghai.(2010)
Documentary film
Avoiding Vision I 2010 I 34' I Yuan-Chen Chen
Just like any other ordinary morning, she brushes her teeth, but when she looks at the mirror, she suddenly does not recognize the person staring back at her. 3 years ago, she decided to get surgery to put her crooked jaw back where it should be. How do you get along with that part of the body you absolutely loathe? This is a story about a person who does not like her body and decides to take action.
Yuan-Chen Chen, born in 1978. Used to be a reporter, art administrators, copywriter. Graduating from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Management of Tainan National University of Art. She is now studying documentary films in the University of Lumière in Lyon, France.
Mama, I am Here I 2010 I 10' I I-Chen Tsou
Nimbus I 2010 I 36' I A-Yao Huang
I tried to pour out the nostalgia and the words in my heart through a taiwanese song- a calling from mother tongue. 2010 Formose Cinema, Lyon, France
I-chen Tsou, born 1983 in Taipei Taiwan, now study fine art in France
Nimbus I 2010 I 36' I A-Yao Huang
Kouhu is a place where land disappears and reappears in the course of history. 20 years ago, wetlands reappeared, turning the residents of Kouhu into one form of “climate refugees”. What visitors regard as beautiful scenery is in fact sorrow of the local residents. While nature gave the land a chance to recuperate, the people who were forced out of the land carry the memory of impoverished homeland forever.
Hsin-Yao Huang is an independent filmmaker based in Tainan, Taiwan. Graduated from the Tainan National University of the Arts' Graduate Institute of Sound and Image, his works have been featured at international film events such as Kassel's documentary, Durban Film Festival in South Arica, the International Environmental Film and Video Festival (FICA, Brazil) and MOMA in New York. His fourth documentary, Bluffing, won Best Documentary at the 29th Golden Harvest Awards, Taiwan's premier showcase for young filmmakers. Huang currently runs Sun Studio Taiwan, an independent production company in Taiwan, and serves as executive director of Taiwan's Documentary Media Workers' Union.
Animation
Fat Tastico I 2009 I 3’ 05“ I Yung-Jui Erik Lee
Fat Tastico is a story about a grumpy magician and his over-excited assistance.
Fat Tastico is a story about a grumpy magician and his over-excited assistance.
Erik Lee graduated from Academy of Art University 3D Character Animation. Now he is working at Brain Zoo Studio in California.
The Wind Up Life I 2010 I 5’ 07” I One Man Chen
The Wind-Up Life is a motion graphics animation project using matte painting, compositing, illustration skills, 2D animation, and 3D animation. This is about the idea of the intersection between dreams and reality. It depicts the connection between what we dream at night and the stress we feel during the day. Symbolically, the idea of pressure is represented by an ocean and fish to show the idea of mentally drowning. My animated film uses dream-like imagery to metaphorically portray the struggles of a person dealing with everyday life.
The Wind-Up Life is a motion graphics animation project using matte painting, compositing, illustration skills, 2D animation, and 3D animation. This is about the idea of the intersection between dreams and reality. It depicts the connection between what we dream at night and the stress we feel during the day. Symbolically, the idea of pressure is represented by an ocean and fish to show the idea of mentally drowning. My animated film uses dream-like imagery to metaphorically portray the struggles of a person dealing with everyday life.
Yi-Jen Chen aka One Man Chen is a motion graphics artist based in New York City. Born and raised in Taiwan, Yi-Jen Chen works in the mediums of graphic design, 2D animation, motion graphics, 3D animation, and digital video. He completed his college education in the Applied Art Department at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan; and received his MFA degree in School of Visual Arts Computer Art in 2010.
Swing is about howliving people influence the perspectives of people on the brink of death. If there was a choice for unconscious patients to decide to live or die, how would their surroundings influence that impossible choice?
Yen-Ting Kuo, born in Taipei, Taiwan. Yen-Ting became interested in art and movie at a young age.His passion for storytelling, acting and imagery cametogether in the creative arts.Bybuilding on his video and filmbackground established at Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan, where he achieved his Bachelor degree, he continued his in-depth study in animationat School of Visual Arts, USA.After graduation, Yen-Ting moved from New York to California, where he is now working as acharacter animation freelancer.
Hallucii, because of drinking too much alcohol, a chubby guy lost his consciousness on his way home. After he woke up, he found himself trapped in an endless-looping staircase. He triedhard to escape, but the truth is another nightmare......
Goo-Shun Wang was born in Taiwan. He earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Geosciences in National Taiwan University. The scientific training in Geosciences offered him a logical angle to observe; in Geology he enjoyed the largest, tiniest, and most primitive beauty of Nature. After the scientific experience he decided to jump into the art field. He graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York with a Master of Fine Art degree. He is working at Psyop Inc. in New York City.
The Nest is an animated film made by Yen-Ting Chung and Chao-Ying Lin. This live action film, blended with ink animation, describes a woman who can not sleep at night after she starts her first job, stapling endless papers. She keeps seeing ink birds and insects in her life. Humans become birds and buildings become nests. Finally, she realizes that she has become a part of the spectacle and cannot escape.
Yen-Ting Chung was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her masters degree from Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Her work varies in media from drawing to animation and sculpture. She recently showed work in The Kitchen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and PULSE Art Fair in NYC, and participated in numerous exhibitions internationally.
Chao-Ying Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan. After receiving her masters degree from School of Visual Arts in New York, she works on image narratives with verious media by computer processing. She believes modernity looks at ambiguities in new degrees to suppose issues. It doesn't rely on the old models but faces the situations with new efforts and ideas. When a new idea is forming, it can be unclear, unacceptable, or insane at the time. Then myth becomes a pleasant way to search for the expression by liberating human imagination. Computer technique is the powerful tool to produce fantasy for its potential to extend human vision. She integrated eastern and western thinkings to discover the collective consciousness of modern society. The resonant metaphor to relate the spirituality and reality is the aesthetics she always searches for.
Mitaitu I 2009 I 1’ 45” I Ching-Hsuan Lin
Mitaimu is a traditional rice noodles dish in Taiwan. However, in this animation the restaurant serve a dish called "Mitaitu" which is made by....
Ching-Hsuan Lin, Taiwan. Study in Tainan National University of the Arts (Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art)
Roue I 2009 I 5’ 03” I Tai-Li Wu
Roue is a self-portrait project. This piece is composed by fragments of my dreams, childhood memories and emotions. "ROUE" is a Chinese word meaning rub back and forth & disorder something. As to me, the experiences of recalls bring me all the affections, both positive and negative. By producing this short film, I explore my unconscious, record my thoughts as a track, and create a way to comfort my emotions.
Tai-Li Wu originated from Taiwan. She received her MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts, NY(2009). Currently, Wu experiments across-field on motion graphics and video design. She enjoys expressing through drawing, animation and photograph in metaphorical forms. She likes to creates things and makes surprises.
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