Private Adventures

Sun Su-ch'ing (Ku Yu-shan, 1998): Amidst the boisterous fanfare of a Taipei night market, this nocturnal impromptu from a hearing-impaired filmmaker involves us with a discourse in the soundless world: we are lead into an evening in the life of Ms. Sun Su-ch'ing, a hearing-impaired woman who sells pastries on makeshift food stalls. (22 mins, Video)Two Guys Go Hunting (Chen Shuo-Yi, 1998): Two insect-hunting buddies find media fame posing as eco-conscious experts on Taiwan's exotic species, although they have never had any formal education in entomology or zoology, or indeed a steady job. Under the operative guise of "Nature's Outback Workshop," they devise original strategies to reap fortune from their newfound celebrity. Crafty swindlers or gallant pioneers, the boys have a jolly good time on an adventure that eventually changes their lives. Award, Taipei Film Festival. (48 mins, Video)High School Yearbook (Yang Li-Chou, 1998): As members of the class of 1998 at Fu-Hsing Art School, a coterie of high school buddies have lived out their lives under the gaze of their teacher's camera since 1995. Back then, as restless youths eager to define themselves to the world, they agreed to be subjects of this controversial documentary. Now, on the verge of adulthood, away from their teacher's shadow of authority, they have begun to question the motives and falsities underlying this painstaking project. This work confronts the as yet uncertain boundaries in Taiwanese documentary ethics, while it remains provocative for the teacher's clever attempts to counterbalance his apparent abuse of power. (57 mins, Video)

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