Artist Eko Nugroho, who was featured at last year's Taipei Biennial, will screen his animation works that deliver social messages through graffiti-like sketches and barrages of noisy rock. Taking a comic approach to the issue of immigrant labor, the animation short Maritess vs. Superfriends tells of a Filipino maid who work for Americans while Woodman 2: BBS Fighting by Taiwanese director Lin Shi-yong (林世勇) is a hilarious 3-D animation depicting an Internet-based bulletin board systems war fought among Web sites in the style of a Hollywood action film.
Half of the screened works were made by local underground talents, and the festival further emphasizes a local perspective through two programs curated by Tony Wu (吳俊輝), one of the leading figures in Taiwan's alternative cinema scene. While the Chasing, Running, Jumping, Colliding (追趕跑跳碰) section is a homage to the style of Hong Kong director Wang Kar-Wei (王家衛), the director in focus is Taiwan-born, New-York educated Wu Tung-wang (吳東旺). The independent filmmaker's outrageous works, such as Hot Throbbing Cock, address the issues of Taiwan's independence through transvestite hookers, lesbians and go-go boys.
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