2021
Cannes Film Festival
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金棕櫚獎
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Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is underway from November 2 to 20! Founded in 1962, TGHFF are not only Taiwan’s most prestigious annual celebration of cinema, but also the highest honor in Chinese-language filmmaking. Held every November, the festival serves as a key platform for Taiwanese audiences to experience outstanding films from around the world. To mark the occasion, Giloo has curated a selection of 10 acclaimed international titles featured in recent editions of the festival—we invite you to rediscover and enjoy these cinematic gems with us.
Some feelings can only be acted upon, never spoken. Some desires simmer like volcanoes, erupting into twisted yet pure magma of life. Some people, once in love, burn themselves alive like moths to a flame—madly in love, deeply in pain. Some love cold as death, where a near-death experience unlocks raw desire, revealing that what could kill you... may not be fatal at all. Giloo presents six brand-new XX films, inviting you to surrender your senses. Whether it’s the melancholy of animals after sex, or the liberation of desire through sex, they’re not the kind of XX films you think they are. You ask what XX means? You can do it—but you can’t say it.
The exhibition takes “the human” as its central theme, reflecting on what it means to exist as a person in this world. It focuses on the intricate, interwoven relationships between self and self, self and others, and self and both physical and virtual environments. The exhibition title borrows from the existential concept of Dasein, or “being there,” to explore humanity’s presence in the here and now. Through this lens, the exhibition opens up multi-layered philosophical inquiries into the human condition and the nature of existence. In extending this curatorial theme, Jut Art Museum collaborates with Giloo, inviting participating artists to curate a selection of eight remarkable films that center on the question of being human. These works return to the essence of what it means to live as a person—interpreting, reflecting, and questioning the many dimensions of humanity, and inviting audiences to contemplate the meaning and possibilities of being born human.
I remember the summer break of my sophomore year—because I took over organizing our department’s cinema festival, I decided to stay in the school dorm all summer, immersing myself in a personal, sensory journey of film appreciation. One afternoon in the campus library, I randomly picked up Tsai Ming-liang’s The River. To my surprise, it quietly and calmly depicted the atypical family experiences I had kept buried deep inside. That film stayed with me—a teenager full of anxiety about life, unsure whether I could truly take responsibility for myself—through those idle, languid summer days. Back then, there was no fiber-optic internet, no AI-powered smartphones. Just light and shadow, casting a humorous yet absurd gaze upon the hardships of reality. So here I am, recommending this film—let yourself sink into the dreamscape of its story, and let it echo the realism of our own lives.
【 CCC Comic Channel × Giloo Documentary “Frames of Autumn: A New Sensory Stroll through Manga” Series 】 On the strange, the obsessive, and love that doesn't ask to be understood. Perhaps it's this kind of inexplicable, unreciprocated passion, desire, and hatred that gives birth to ghost stories. As for "Tropical Fish(1995)," speaking of Asakusa, you definitely come up with Misemonogoya (Freak Show)! 📖 "Fruits of Passion" pays homage to the short comic "○": https://www.creative-comic.tw/zh/book/380/content
Farewell, 2022. Hello, 2023. Whether it’s a hopeless yet burning desire, a sensual and reckless affair, or a quiet, youthful flutter buried deep in your heart—as the seasons shift and a new year begins, Giloo presents five classic love stories to spark your courage and inspire you to chase love, boldly and fearlessly.