Designed as a platform to encourage independent short filmmaking among Taiwan’s emerging talent, the Youth Generation Film Festival (青春世代影展) celebrates its sixth edition this year with a lineup of 43 Taiwanese short and animated films selected from 173 entries.
Many of the selected works reveal a fanciful world. Post-Human (後人類), for example, is an animated piece that takes a whimsical look at smartphone addiction through a tale about train commuters. The intelligently written animated film Close Circuit (關/愛) tells the story of a Lego kid trying to escape his smothering Russian doll mother who wants her son to be a Russian doll rather than a Lego.
Some young filmmakers turn their lens toward what is happening in the world around them. Chicharon (薯片) is a fictional work centering on a half Filipino and half Taiwanese school girl and her search for identity. A documentary made entirely on a mobile phone, Jade Man (挖洞子) reveals the hardships and dangers faced by impoverished Burmese youths working in Myanmar’s jade mines.
Photo courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei, 台北當代藝術館), the festival runs through Sept. 13 at the museum, while simultaneously playing at the Tainan Film Center (台南南門電影書院), 38, Nanmen Rd, Tainan City (台南市南門路38號), in August and Eslite Taipei Station (誠品站前店), B1, 47-1, Zhongxiao W Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市忠孝西路一段47-1號B1), from Aug. 22 to Oct. 11.
For more information, visit the museum’s Web site at www.mocataipei.org.tw.
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