Film Order of Play

2 + 1

We and you, they and me. Two boys, one girl, three close friends, how many results are possible? Two is company, three must be none? In the summer of 17, three young men riding two bicycles, enter into a world of love, trust, and betrayal. Nobody wants to be alone, but who can solve the problem of 2 + 1?

My Grandma

A septuagenarian shares and apartment with her grandsons. A wedding invitation presents an opportunity for some excitement, though once she makes extensive preparations, her grandsons both have something more important to do…

The Finger

Nick loses a finger and cannot play the piano any more.

I Just Kept Running

Contradictions and disparity. The dynamic depletion of body or an exploring spirit? The differences between movement and stillness. Is there a measurable distance from consciousness? Which states are real?

Belonging

May is a Vietnamese bride in Taiwan. After years of frustration, a young Vietnamese immigrant worker comes to her life. The affair puts her into a dilemma between her desire for true love and her responsibility to her family and her son…

Milk Man

Milk, Milk, Milk and Milk! At last, you drink milk and grow into a cow?! Is that what you want?

The House of Sleeping Beauty

The Soliloquist

“Loneliness, sensing your existence, makes me want to disappear.”

A modern fable about the complications of loneliness, interpersonal relationships, romance, fantasy, and illusions.

An Instant Rain

Set during the warring states period, a flash monsoon traps two conflicting strangers in a shelter. A women arrives, providing a period of solace, though once the rain stops, each draws different conclusions from the shared moment.

The Drunken Concubine

One afternoon the married daughter returns home to help out her elderly and somewhat overly traditional mother. Despite catering to her ever demanding needs an argument between mother and daughter ensues. After reaching breaking point the daughter, unwilling to be berated by her elderly mother any longer reveals a long held secret.

Trysting Place

Teen angst among the roof tops of an old school building as a young boy and girl figure out how to handle the growing pressurs of love, romance and the sadness of leaving youth behind. Set to a charming soundtrack and using smooth cinematography Trysting place is a engaging gem of a short film.

It Seems to Rain

“Who said where there’s a will, there’s a way? Perhaps things would be a lot easier if we could straighten life out as if we were straightening curly hair.”

Kwang has to straighten his naturally born curly hair with a hair straightener before school everyday. However, due to the rainy season, he is very troubled when his hair curls up by the moisture.

A transferred student, Cheng, discovers Kwangs secret one humid afternoon. Kwang tries to change the conversation but curiosity is aroused in Cheng by Kwang’s defensive reaction and he is determined to seek friendship to discover the meaning of the duplicity.

Kwang’s childhood playmate, Yong, feels threatened by Cheng’s entry into their social circle. Yong slowly discovers that the threat not only targets herself, but slowly wakens a monster that has buried deep within Kwang. An endless, self-hypnotizing, game of contradiction beings.

Wanting to look like everyone else, Kwang repeats the same straightening movement everyday.