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a clip from 10-10, my new documentary

Everyone is this island country sings. A story about an old man kills his nasty neighbour, an alien suspect. It looks the neighbourhood chair is listening to the local AM radio program. In fact, he has been decoded the signals from the aliens outer space. He warns the neighbours that the day of extinction of the earth is coming. However, no body believes what he said…

Just as the circumstances which force Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Beings” womanizing Czech surgeon to flee the Russian invasion reveal a passion for the flesh from a unique perspective, Fluffy Rhapsody's Wan allows the tiny aches and pains of getting old and the fear of death transform his daily activities of job-searching, having sex, pulling his teeth, cheating and idling. Wan is a medical school drop nearing his 30s who starts a relationship with an interesting and puzzling...

It’s the year 1999, the year before the millennium. Hei-shu（Kuroki）, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. The irony is that no one in the band can play any musical instruments. One day, Hei-shu’s cat is missing. At about the same time, a new neighbor moves in to an apartment upstairs. Hei-shu still opens the can food for the cat every morning. He strongly believes that his cat will come back some day. He later...

Kubozuka Yosuke ("GO") stars as Oshima, a young man who wakes up in the middle of a desert with an unconscious woman beside him. She turns out to be Coco, and she relates a story about how Oshima came to his present position: he and his girlfriend, May, were on a road trip to Snow Mountain when they got locked out of their car. May leaves to get help and never returns. Oshima and Coco resume the trip, hoping to find May along the way. A drama about loss and the true value of memory.

16mm / Color/ 20 min/ English/ 1995 2000 Purely16 Indie Film Festival, Taiwan 1998 “The Beat Generation Conference” Special Screening, Netherlands 1998 Taipei Film Festival, Taiwanese Shorts of the Past twenty years, Special Screening 1997 Golden Harvest Award, best film of the year 1996 New York EXPO SHOWCASE Jury Award 1995 CHICAGO International Film Festival, Merit Award SIDNEY MEYERS MEMORIAL AWARD, Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing David schwartz, the...

Nothing is more ridiculous than reality this inexplicable reality, Therefore, I decided make a documentary again ... a film which could soften the mind of our lazy and crazy minds and for people who are fond of thinking would find the elephant in the room The threshold is low, so-called ordinary people could easily step in, but they must climb out after watching it. It means that the soul would become richer, and gain a bit of weight ...

The debate on the demolition of urban renewal of old buildings continues with blind mourning; we continue to lose the architectural landscape (memory and life experience) with only the scenes/sets of historical streets. What remains and is seen is only a hollow and nostalgic aesthetic form, and often does not see the true historical context of the local texture. Those that disappear and cannot be seen, of course, do not mean that they do not exist, and they are far clearer than the illusion...