The cat I don't own runs through windows between different spaces and times, and it disappears before finishing a sentence. Using outtakes and rushes (what "fur film" means in Mandarin) to redeem the affects in these images we produced for. The film is the first volume of an ongoing exchange diary project between Erica SHEU and Tzuan WU. From the filming exercises and hand processing from the very beginning, we collaborate and experiment with different workflows of audio and visual between Taiwan and USA.
Faires decay with self-irrrtation. Sweltering heat, sweats pour from their armpits.
An experimental documentary which opens with a story of my family: my American aunt found a painting of my grandmother by chance, in a random Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere - she said she cried. By tracing this story and reproducing its meaning, the film wonders through different topics: the construction of the Cold War, USA and Taiwan relations, different generations of Chinese diaspora since the 1950s, contemporary immigration and cross-nation fluidity, family romances, religion, and ancestors...
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The Ｍermaid exchanged her singing for walking on land. The voice of an infant who has not yet learned language is like foam that has not yet risen to the surface of the sea. Perhaps the silence of the sirens, like in Kafka's "The Silence of the Sirens," might travel underwater. Imagine that this world that we cannot perceive could eventually turn into a bubble. The film is an experiment in repeated exposures of a roll of 16mm film, combining digital and analog image sources and using pre-determined graphics to construct the synchronization of sound and image.
