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  Taiwan New Cinema: Revisited

  “O my prodigal son!Now, and anytime, is the time to set off again wantonly.Allow this isle and that isle,To guide the land lying beneath the dark sea,In sailing to your hand.”   “Taiwan New Cinema” is marked in history as a revolutionary movement. Its representative films have been canonized and recognized as important cultural assets of Taiwan’s film culture. Forty years since the movement, the dust has settled on the story of Taiwan New Cinema. Not only is the movement clearly defined in terms of period (1982-1986), but the affiliated participants and works have also been viewed as a whole.   However, for a long time, the revisits of New Cinema have often been restricted to a few films, while most films have not received the same opportunity to be viewed and interpreted. We have also discovered that apart from New Cinema, there were sporadic individual movements carrying out evasion, negotiation, resistance, and subversion under the regulation of the authority and the system. They were de facto seeking alternative cinema.   Inspired by CHIU Kang-chien’s poetry collection, Time to Set off Again Wantonly, we titled this film festival “Taiwan New Cinema: Revisited”, attempting to recall the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of New Cinema and to invite the contemporary audience to re-identify and rediscover New Cinema. We hope that in its 40th anniversary, New Cinema remains an energy field that continues its movement, formation, and expansion.   The festival presents four programs: “The Beginning of the Beginning: Before In Our Time” reimagines the birth of New Cinema, selecting films made before 1982 and therefore excluded from New Cinema. However, these films were singular in style, bold in awareness, and experimental in form. The “Rediscovering Taiwan New Cinema: 1982-1986” program revisits the canonical films made between 1982 and 1986, and those left out and forgotten during the canonicalization. “The Beginning of the End: Post Manifesto” screens selected films post the Taiwan Cinema Manifesto. Some filmmakers left the movement in search of new producing modes and taboo subjects to tackle, aiming to realize another pursuit of cinema. “New Image at the Margins: GHA Shorts Selection ” selects Golden-Harvest-Awards-winning shorts between 1979 and 1989, drawing attention to the other branch of films in the 80s so as to mirror and converse with mainstream New Cinema.   During the festival, we collaborate with different partners to organize 8 talks corresponding to various topics, perspectives, and aspects of New Cinema. We attempt to recall the formation of this cultural event and examine its components. Additionally, the festival also presents an exhibition of stills from Dust in the Wind (1986), displaying the never-before-seen stills in 35 years by photographer LIU Chen-hsiang, and reenacting the moment when New Cinema met new stills.   The New Cinema movement involved an immense and complicated history. This festival offers one route for reference; however, we believe there are many more ways to reconfigure the movement and obtain a plural vision.   Let this festival be a starting point for us to continually shift our attention from the center to the corners of history and the edges of time, and explore the unfinished “stories”.   Now, or anytime, is the time to rethink/rediscover/revisit/redefine Taiwan New Cinema.   ｜Festival Date｜2022/09/16（FRI） — 11/27（SUN）｜Tickets Sale｜2022/08/05（FRI） 12:00, by OPENTIX（www.opentix.life）｜Venue｜Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute（TFAI）
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  Yonfan’s Le Temps Perdu

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• TFAI Monthly Series: The True Reflection

  Paracollective: Selected Works

  Paracollective is the name of the Russian filmmaking duo Dina Karaman and Vladimir Nadein, who fled Russia hoping for safety after protesting in anti-war movements. After seeking asylum in different countries, they are here in Taiwan for a visiting artist program hosted by VT ArtSalon. In collaboration with VT ArtSalon, TFAI is presenting three works by Paracollective, along with award-winning Detours (dir. Ekaterina Selenkina, 2021), produced by Vladimir Nadein, in the upcoming TFAI Cinema Monthly Series. More information can be found below, including artist statements and screening dates/time of the two programs. The screenings on 10/2 and 10/9 will be followed by in-person Q&A sessions with Vladimir and Dina.      ＊＊＊   Program 1: Letters about the End of the World + Detours   Shot in 2020 during the strict Covid-19 lockdown from the artist's apartment window Letters about the End of the World (2020, 29min) weaves together Saint-Petersburg’s deserted landscape and a dreamy network of imaginary spaces retold by their multilingual inhabitants, experiencing the isolation on the brink of an apocalyptic fear. While Detours (2021, 73min) explores another invisible network — the Darkweb and its connection with anonymity of the city, following a young ‘treasureman', whose job is to anonymously hide stashes of drugs in locations across Moscow, sending online clients on ‘quests’ to pick them up. The landscapes are seen as a series of potential drop-off sites. Anonymous figures inhabit the space, moving through it with unknown purpose. The landscape is marked with the constant presence of police force.   ＊＊＊ Program 2: Daily News – A Chronicle of Our Days + 91   In both presented films the events are put together in a single chronological order. In Daily News — A Chronicle of Our Days (2021, 62min), state propaganda newsreel episodes are deprived of the narrator's voice-over. Portraying the post-war life in the USSR since 1945, the muted story cuts on the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow, one of the key events that influenced the collapse of the Soviet empire. The film 91 (2021, 26min) continues the story. Its audio track has been recorded on the streets of Moscow during the coup, and the footage was taken from the private families movie archives of the ordinary Russian citizens shot from 1992 to 2000, which marks a beginning of a new era of dictator’s imperialism. Clashing together the official propaganda narratives and the living documentary testimonies, this combined program questions how the type and notion of archive shape the historical and collective memory, and how the manipulations on the perceptions of the past influence the present.    ＊＊＊ About Paracollective   Vladimir Nadein (b. 1993) is a curator, producer and filmmaker. A member of the filmmakers’ duo Paracollective, together with Dina KARAMAN. He produced Detours, a recipient of Hubert Bals Fund and Eurimages Lab Project Award in Les Arcs. It was awarded at Venice International Film Critics' Week and selected at Viennale, Thessaloniki, Jeonju FF, IndieLisboa, among others. Vladimir co-founded Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and directed it for five editions. He curated screenings and public programs for Venice Architecture Biennale, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Garage Museum, and many other venues.    Dina Karaman (b. 1986) is a filmmaker, video artist, archive researcher and exhibition scenographer. A member of the filmmakers’ duo Paracollective, together with Vladimir NADEIN. She makes experimental films intertwining found footage, documentary and fictional narratives. She participated in film programmes of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Message to Man Film Festival, to name a few. Dina gives workshops on found footage in various film schools.  From 2011 she designed exhibitions for the art institutions like Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.     About Ekaterina Selenkina, director of Detours   Ekaterina Selenkina is a filmmaker, artist and curator born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992. Her work received the Bright Future Award of the Hubert Bals Fund of Rotterdam International Film Festival , Eurimages Lab Project Award at Les Arcs Film Festival, a special prize at Venice International Film Festival, best film award at FILMADRID and best national film at New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival. Her work has shown at Venice International Film Critics Week, Viennale, The Barbican Centre, Jeonju IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, IndieLisboa, Berlin Critics’ Week, REDCAT, Image Forum, Beldocs among many others. She is a member of the film collective Bahía Colectiva, as well as a co-founder and a co-curator of Adrift Residency. She received her MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts.   ►►►Get tickets HERE
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  The Shape of Things to Come: CREATORS 5th Anniversary ｜ Special Screening

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  Homage to Lee Hsing: A Retrospective

  Lee Hsing (1930-2021), lauded as 'the godfather of Taiwanese cinema’ in the Chinese film scene, had directed 52 films and numerous stage plays. Starting his career in the era of Taiwanese-Language Cinema (taiyupian) in the 1960s, he had gone through the period of Healthy Realism, the influence of the aesthetics of color propaganda, and the sensation of Qiong Yao film (films based on works by renowned romance novelist Qiong Yao). Still, his works retain a sense of educational entertainment which not only served the purpose of political propaganda but also conveyed a sense of compassion for the society.  In October 2022, the first anniversary of Lee Hsing’s passing, Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute will launch a program with 8 carefully selected titles from Lee Hsing’s oeuvre as well as 2 documentaries on the philosophy and the extraordinary career journey of his that spanned more than four decades, commemorating his contribution to the filmmaking scene in the Chinese-speaking world. ｜Venue｜Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute（TFAI）｜Festival Date｜2022/08/19（FRI） — 09/04（SUN）｜Tickets Sale｜2022/08/05（FRI） 12:00, by OPENTIX（www.opentix.life）
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  Stanley Kubrick Special Screenings

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  French Classics Rediscovered: Freedom For Us!

  In 2019, the retrospective "Le cinéma de (mauvais) genre taiwanais", co-organized with the TFAI, took place at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. French audiences were able to discover long forgotten parts of Taiwanese cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s; giving an opening to a nation’s cinema known only in the West for its ‘80s New Wave. In return, TFAI and Cinémathèque française, in collaboration with the French Office in Taipei, offer 20 years of French cinema produced between 1915 and 1939, a period less known than France’s own New Wave of the 1960s, yet equally essential. The program focuses on a pivotal period, the transition to sound films, and the consequently threatened silent cinema. From the inventiveness of silent cinema and the transition to talkies, through the narrative experimentalism of the 1920s, to films advocating for an egalitarian society in the 1930s, “French Classics Rediscovered – Freedom for Us” is divided into three programs: Freedom Explodes, A Liberty for Women, and A Freedom of Sensibilities. Together they introduce France’s inter-war cinema and its unique bubble of freedom. ｜Venue｜Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute(TFAI)｜Festival Date｜2022/06/03(FRI)—07/31(SUN)｜Tickets Sale｜2022/05/18(WED) 12:00, by OPENTIX(www.opentix.life)
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  走走影視聽：職人帶路

  國家影視聽中心典藏寶物盡在「顯影．現聲：台灣影視聽文物展」及時間圖書館，2022/4/24日起每個月最後一個週日時光，邀您來影視聽中心走走，讓職人帶您一同漫步於影視聽的時間軸上，聽導覽、看電影、泡圖書館，發現影視聽史寶物，聆聽影像記憶故事。 由影視聽職人帶路，一張「時光機．票」帶你遊走記憶迴廊、時間圖書館及內含一張電影兌換券。一票綜覽聽導覽、看電影、泡圖書館，每場活動時間90分鐘，每場限量20名，費用全票300元(內含一張電影兌換券、餐廳及賣店消費折價券30元)，歡迎踴躍參與。     【活動說明】 導覽範圍包括影視聽中心二樓展間「顯影．現聲：台灣影視聽文物展」、三樓圖書館「時間圖書館」，影視聽中心將視當日空間安排，彈性調整導覽路線。 參加導覽同時可獲得國家影視聽中心電影兌換券一張，可自選任一場次體驗本中心於大、小影格主辦節目的高規格影音魅力。本中心影廳為全台唯一同時擁有35mm放映系統、4K高對比RGB雷射放映機、Dolby Atmos®杜比全景聲的非商業院線放映場館。並可獲得餐廳及賣店消費折價券一張，每張面額30元，每筆消費限折一張，光影食趣餐廳及時光選品商店不限品項都可使用。
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  TFAI：The Pionners

  TFAI launches regular talks inviting stars and professionals of film, TV, and radio to come share their fascinating stories on and off screen. The talks will surely become precious memories of our era. 【Booking Information】 1.  TFAI MemberThis is a TFAI member event. If you are not a member yet, please sign up (an annual fee is charged, see the member section for details) before booking. ●Booking Online: Please select the date and time of the talk, and proceed to the OPENTIX page to finish booking. You will then enjoy priority entry. 2.  Film, TV, and Communications StudentsTo encourage film students to participate, and to facilitate intergenerational dialogue, we reserve 5 seats for the students for each talk. Every student can book a reserved seat once. (To book a second time, students must sign up to become TFAI members, and proceed to the OPENTIX page to finish booking.) ●Online Booking: Please fill in the Google form (5 seats available for each talk) for a chance to enjoy priority entry. TFAI will contact the first 5 bookers a week before the talk. Those who did not book successfully will not be notified. 【Admission】 All talks are free seating. 1.  Online Booking(1) Please present your “OPENTIX e-ticket” or “student card” (limited to personal use) upon admission.(2) Please arrive 10 minutes before the talk. If you fail to do so, your onlinebooking will be canceled, and your seat will be given to those queuing on-site. To avoid interruption to the talk, TFAI reserves the right to not admit latecomers. 2.  Queuing On-site(1) Please follow the instructions of our on-site staff and queue in line. We will assess the seating situation and admit non-ticket holders 10 minutes before the talk. Admission will be closed once the seats are filled. To avoid interruption to the talk, TFAI reserves the right to not admit latecomers.(2) Non-ticket holders queuing in line should present their “TFAI membership card” or “OPENTIX APP membership page” (binding to TFAI membership is required). 【Admission Fee】 Free of Charge. 【Notice】  ●The entire talk will be photographed and filmed. The images are only used by the advisors and organizers of the event for educational and promotional purposes as well as for compiling reports. ●By booking a ticket, you consent to TFAI’s use of your image or likeness incidental to any video display, internet promotion, or press coverage of the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please inform the on-site staff on the day of the talk. Our staff will avoid photographing and filming you. ●The entire talk will be photographed and filmed. The film crew reserves the liberty to position cameras and other equipment. We apologize if the filming activity partially restricts your view. ●Please respect the speakers’ intellectual property and do not film, record or take pictures during the talk. ●To avoid interruption to the talk, please set your phone to vibrate or silent mode. ●The talk will last 1.5 hours without intermission. We suggest you use the toilets before admission, lest you miss any great parts. ●The talk will be conducted in Mandarin. 【Photo Disclaimer】 The entire talk will be photographed and filmed. The advisors and organizers of the event will only use the images for video editing and for educational and promotional purposes, as well as for compiling reports. TFAI will have permanent, gratuitous, and universal use of the participants’ portraits, names, and audio recordings, etc. in all forms of work and media. TFAI will also hold the rights to replicate, adapt, transmit, broadcast, release, exhibit, print and publish the authorized content in its entirety or in parts to the public via all media channels.
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  It’s Saturday! Let’s Chill with Films

    The TFAI’s Grand Theater launches “It’s Saturday! Let’s Chill with Films”, a themed multiple sensory experience including taste and smell, aiming to unlock your senses during the screening. In addition to enjoying the sight and sound of the film, you are also welcomed to taste the gastronomy in the film and smell the unique scent on the filming location. You are invited to move beyond traditional film viewing and make your own film “sensing” experience, and go on a journey of life with the characters. Watching films can be very chill! On relaxing Saturday nights, please invite your family, friends, and partners to come chill with films and make some great film viewing memories together. 【Ticket Price】Single Ticket: NT$ 350Ticket for Two: NT$ 630Member Ticket: NT$ 280Tickets for Children, the Disabled (and their Companions), the Elderly: NT$ 175 ※The prices above include a film-themed meal or product.※For the theme and details of every screening, please visit the program information page.※All pre-screening activities, post-screening talks and other on-site activities will be conducted in Mandarin.
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  TFAI CINEMA

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  WUXIA GENRE IN TAIWAN Film Serise & Audiovisual Exhibition

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