Hou Chi-jan

Documentary short examining the life of the indigenous Taiwanese singer, Panana.

The cat has disappeared in a night of torrential rain; they say if you point a pair of scissors to your doorstep and silently call the cat’s name, a mysterious force will lead your cat back. Half a world away, I silently call my cat’s name, and my memories take me across the waters of the underworld, as things I have lost in the past now stand before my eyes. As the scissors slice time open, can the cat find its way home?

After four decades, a group of veteran singers gather together again. The songs they wrote when they were young had once changed the fate of the island. However, time took away their youth and changed the island's soul. Not only a new national identity has formed but so many new music genres have emerged since then. Can the innocent songs they sang back in the old days still be related to the new era?

Urban legend has it that once you get bitten by a vampire, you will become one of them and reconnect with your suppressed primal desires. Who will be next?

Urban legend has it that once you get bitten by a vampire, you will become one of them and reconnect with your suppressed primal desires. Who will be next?

공부하러 가겠다고 말한 뒤 자신을 영영 떠나버린 여자친구를 찾아 학원가의 복사가게에 취직한 텅(가진동). 어느 날 복사를 하려고 집어 든 시험지에서 독백을 하는 양의 그림을 본다. 학원에서 보조로 일하는 양(간만서)이 밋밋한 시험지에 꾸준히 그려온 그림 옆에 낙서를 하기 시작한 텅. 그 그림들이 학생들 사이에서 인기를 끌면서 학원가는 활기를 띠기 시작한다. 양과 텅은 시험지 위 그림 낙서를 통해 서로의 존재를 확인 할 수 있을까?

공부하러 가겠다고 말한 뒤 자신을 영영 떠나버린 여자친구를 찾아 학원가의 복사가게에 취직한 텅(가진동). 어느 날 복사를 하려고 집어 든 시험지에서 독백을 하는 양의 그림을 본다. 학원에서 보조로 일하는 양(간만서)이 밋밋한 시험지에 꾸준히 그려온 그림 옆에 낙서를 하기 시작한 텅. 그 그림들이 학생들 사이에서 인기를 끌면서 학원가는 활기를 띠기 시작한다. 양과 텅은 시험지 위 그림 낙서를 통해 서로의 존재를 확인 할 수 있을까?

대만 건국 100주년을 맞이해 금마장영화제가 허우샤오시엔, 웨이더솅 등 현재 가장 뛰어난 대만 감독 20명에게 자유롭게 대만의 독특한 정체성에 대한 5분짜리 영화를 만들어달라고 주문했다. 다양성과 결속감이 어우러진 영감을 주는 작품.

A triptych reinterpreting Shakespeare's classic character Juliet. The three stories are directed by 3 different directors; Juliet's Choice (By Hou Chi Jan), Two Juliets (By Shen Ko Shang), and Another Juliet (By Chen Yu Hsun) Juliet's Choice : In the 70's, Ju worked in a printing store where a boy with a banned article changes her life. Two Juliets : Mei is told that in the 80's, a woman faked insanity to be locked up just to wait for her lover. Another Juliet : In 2010, "Juliet" tries to commit suicide but a TV commercial crew gets in the way.....

A woman is transported into a world as strange and beautiful as her dreams in this fantasy. Singing, who comes from a family of poor shopkeepers, earns her living as a cleaning woman on a ferry that services a military base. Singing has a recurring dream in which she meets a handsome stranger who speaks in language she cannot understand, and one day on the ferry she meets Tsai Hsien-tsung, a soldier who resembles the man in her dreams. The soldier is immediately smitten with Singing, and when the power goes out on the ferry, the two are thrown into a strange netherworld where they sail to South America on a deserted vessel as Singing loses her heart to the military man.

A woman is transported into a world as strange and beautiful as her dreams in this fantasy. Singing, who comes from a family of poor shopkeepers, earns her living as a cleaning woman on a ferry that services a military base. Singing has a recurring dream in which she meets a handsome stranger who speaks in language she cannot understand, and one day on the ferry she meets Tsai Hsien-tsung, a soldier who resembles the man in her dreams. The soldier is immediately smitten with Singing, and when the power goes out on the ferry, the two are thrown into a strange netherworld where they sail to South America on a deserted vessel as Singing loses her heart to the military man.

Taiwan has 20 million inhabitants, and 12,5 million motorbikes. My 747 is the directors personal story, about his motorbike and their life together over the last eight years.

Taiwan has 20 million inhabitants, and 12,5 million motorbikes. My 747 is the directors personal story, about his motorbike and their life together over the last eight years.

Taiwan has 20 million inhabitants, and 12,5 million motorbikes. My 747 is the directors personal story, about his motorbike and their life together over the last eight years.

Between 1979 and 1983, 117 violent and gritty social realist pictures were produced in Taiwan. Many of these found their way around the world courtesy of Hong Kong's IFD films.

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Taipei, 1954. The song, Green Island Serenade, was heard over the Tannoy in the park. The crowds listened in silence. As time moves on, the park, where people used to come for music, has become a meeting point for gay men at night. No more songs are heard over the Tannoy, but the melancholy melodies still echo in the lonely hearts of those young men lingering in the park. Although youth is gone and the singer has aged, the singing continues for over half of a century.