Assembling Time: Moving Image from Taiwan
In collaboration with 1646 and the Taiwanese Cultural Centre, Paris, we are delighted to welcome Zoe Yeh, Director and Curator of Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei for our last screening of the year.
Doors open: 15:00. Sharp start: 15:15. Please reserve a free seat at the link above. Including food and drink!
Zoe introduces her selection of films as follows:
“With advancements in technology and increasing cultural exchange, our modern understanding of the world has undergone a profound transformation. The selected works provide the understanding of regional relationships from Taiwan’s perspective. The artists introduced in this screening-lecture are deeply fascinated by how humanity perceives the world. Through investigations into prehistoric civilizations, studies of tribal legends, and reinterpretation of folklore—each representing a distinct historical moment of human inquiry—they examine the limitations and complexities of contemporary systems of knowledge.”
Hominins (2019), 16 mins by Wu Chi-Yu
Inspired by Sulawesi cave paintings and regional fossils, the work explores convergent evolution and shared human cognition. Early imagery functioned like a proto-VR, marking consciousness across cultures. Evolution is continuous, linking prehistoric perception with today’s digital experience, revealing no true “missing link,” only limits in how each era understands its place in time.
Hominins (2019), 16 mins by Wu Chi-Yu
Inspired by Sulawesi cave paintings and regional fossils, the work explores convergent evolution and shared human cognition. Early imagery functioned like a proto-VR, marking consciousness across cultures. Evolution is continuous, linking prehistoric perception with today’s digital experience, revealing no true “missing link,” only limits in how each era understands its place in time.
Compound Eyes of Tropical (2019-22), 17 mins by Zhang Xu Zhan
The film is inspired by the costumes of yi zhen performers from Taiwan’s ceremonial festivals. Originally adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale ‘The Mousedeer Crosses the River’, the work integrates similar folktale narratives from different countries, to create the half-mousedeer, half-fox shaman puppet dancer in the animation. The dancer switches back and forth between human and animal, using his wit to fool the crocodiles in the river, in an attempt to reach the other side.
Compound Eyes of Tropical (2019-22), 17 mins by Zhang Xu Zhan
The film is inspired by the costumes of yi zhen performers from Taiwan’s ceremonial festivals. Originally adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale ‘The Mousedeer Crosses the River’, the work integrates similar folktale narratives from different countries, to create the half-mousedeer, half-fox shaman puppet dancer in the animation. The dancer switches back and forth between human and animal, using his wit to fool the crocodiles in the river, in an attempt to reach the other side.
Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a) (2024), 21 mins by Her Lab Space
Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a) reimagines the Si Tanggang myth to explore fluid identity and borders. Through interviews with stateless Malaysian children and layered storytelling—reenactment, news, metafiction—the work deconstructs belonging, memory, and politics into a shifting, dreamlike narrative machine.
Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a) (2024), 21 mins by Her Lab Space
Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a) reimagines the Si Tanggang myth to explore fluid identity and borders. Through interviews with stateless Malaysian children and layered storytelling—reenactment, news, metafiction—the work deconstructs belonging, memory, and politics into a shifting, dreamlike narrative machine.
We look forward to seeing you there!
