Rear Mirror of Cinema

Trespassing Bergman

Jane MAGNUSSON, Hynek PALLAS

Sweden | 2013 | 108 min | Chinese/ English Subtitles | P

3/21 Sat. 13:00 ★Taiwan Premiere

In the mid-1960s, Swedish director Ingmar BERGMAN built a house on the remote island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea. Throughout his life, the house was a well-guarded secret. Here BERGMAN would live and shoot some of his seminal films until his death in 2007. In Trespassing Bergman the audience is taken to the house with directors like Claire DENIS, Michael HANEKE, Ang LEE, to tell the story of him. Definitely a fresh and intimate perspective on Ingmar BERGMAN.

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Stephen SILHA, Eric SLADE, Dawn LOGSDON

USA | 2013 | 83 min | Chinese/ English Subtitles | R

3/14 Sat. 19:30 ★Taiwan Premiere☆Filmmaker in Attendance

Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions – painting, theatre, film, and poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. Big Joy explores Broughton's passionate embrace of a life of pansexual transcendence and a fiercely independent mantra: "follow your own weird". His remarkable story spans the post-war San Francisco Renaissance, influence on the Beat generation, a lifetime of acclaim for his joyous experimental films and poetry celebrating the human body.

Past Present

SAW Tiongguan

Malaysia | 2013 | 75 min | Chinese/ English Subtitles | G

3/29 Sun. 15:30 ☆Filmmaker in Attendance

Past Present follows the Director TSAI Ming-Liang's journey to film, tracing TSAI's childhood in Kuching, Malaysia, and the crucial move to Taiwan in the 1970s. Affected by a strong sense of loss, TSAI rediscovers his past while evaluating the present day as a "throwaway era", he described, for people are unable to cherish the value of the past. TSAI's colleagues, from Ang LEE to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and his constant collaborators, discuss the uniqueness of his work and him as a person, in search for ever greater freedom and artistry.

Searching For Brodsky (Director’s Cut)

HSIEH Chia-Kuen

Taiwan | 2012 | 84 min | Chinese Subtitles | G

3/29 Sun. 13:00 ☆Filmmaker in Attendance

Little did we know that Brodsky was a Russian Jew, basically a business man who owned an exhibition chain of 82 cinemas. This film is the first to show extensive clips from Brodsky's well-preserved feature-length documentary - the earliest surviving footage of everyday Chinese life - and dig a little deeper into Brodsky's past. Taiwan film scholar LIAO Gene-Fon travels from Taipei to Japan, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, walking in Brodsky's steps and showing footage of the film to scholars.

The Golden Times

MON Jr-Shin

Taiwan｜2010｜36 min | Chinese Subtitles | G

3/20 Fri. 17:00

This film is about the life of the actor, CHOU Yi-De. He became extremely popular by the release of the Taiwanese film, City Love Affairs (1957), in which he played the lead actor. Besides of acting, he was also a projectionist, a professional pilot, and became an orator after the end of Japanese colonization. This documentary traces his footsteps from silent to sound films, and watches him wade through the history of pre-war and post-war.

Life: Love and Films in the Life of Chang Hsun-Nan

MON Jr-Shin

Taiwan｜2010｜36 min | Chinese Subtitles | G

3/20 Fri. 17:00

This film is about the life of the actor, CHOU Yi-De. He became extremely popular by the release of the Taiwanese film, City Love Affairs (1957), in which he played the lead actor. Besides of acting, he was also a projectionist, a professional pilot, and became an orator after the end of Japanese colonization. This documentary traces his footsteps from silent to sound films, and watches him wade through the history of pre-war and post-war.