"Creation Through the Cracks" — Candy Bird Support Program

Join Candy Bird in documenting the forgotten things lost between the cracks

❝ Some memories were never truly forgotten—just rarely spoken aloud. ❞

In Taiwan, these memories often stem from family taboos or the absence of history in the education system. For Candy Bird, creation is a way to let these silenced languages reemerge—an act of resistance against forgetting and suppression.

This project exists to complete and push forward these works born from memory, history, and political margins—so they can be seen. So that moving images become more than archives: they become a living force.

🐦 About Candy Bird｜An artist walking between the political and the personal

Candy Bird (real name Han Chun-Yueh), born in Taipei in 1982, comes from a post-1945 immigrant family. He started his career through street graffiti, initially focusing on urban space and civic issues. His pen name “Candy Bird” originated as an anonymous street mark.

His work often revolves around the intersection of personal experience and political structures—what he calls the “cracks”: seemingly invisible gray zones where power and trauma intertwine.

From graffiti and murals to video, sound installations, and text, Candy Bird has never stopped asking how history seeps into daily life. His art is a kind of reverse storytelling—eschewing grand narratives and instead confronting how power enters homes, education, language, and even dreams.

🏆 Exhibitions & Awards

🌟 2023 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival (residency & exhibition)

🌟 2022 Taipei Biennial “Small World” extension project artist

🌟 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA)

🌟 Solo exhibition “Fractured Rhetoric” at Tainan Xinying Cultural Center

🏆 Finalist, 10th Taishin Arts Award

🏆 Multiple international residencies and commissions (incl. Thailand, Germany, Hong Kong)

🎞 Film works (click titles for more)

All the best (2023): A fictional diary set in Taiwan under current Cold War tensions, exploring the life and inner conflicts of a spy operating in Taiwan.

Riverside Fireworks (2023): A tale of separation and reunion, blending long silences and sonic detail. A decade-spanning love story that metaphorically reflects Hiroshima’s turbulent modern history.

Unnamed Nightshade (2025): A parable composed of the Taiwanese folktale “Tiger Auntie” and memories of authoritarian rule, examining how power permeates space.

SUGAR NOCTURNE (in production): Inspired by Candy Bird’s experience at the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, this poetic and ambiguous short juxtaposes a blurred memory of intimacy with Taiwan’s White Terror era.

🎯 Why your support matters

These short films have already been shot but are still awaiting final post-production and public promotion. Supporting this project is not only about helping Candy Bird finish the production—it’s also the key to ensuring that these works are seen, screened, and meaningfully understood.

These films will be brought into schools, communities, film festivals, and forums—serving as a medium for intergenerational dialogue and as a starting point for revisiting and rewriting history.

💰 How the funds will be used

Target: USD 20,000

33% post-production for SUGAR NOCTURNE

17% post-production for Unnamed Nightshade

50% for developing new short and feature-length scripts

Use of funds

1️⃣ Finish post-production & submit to festivals

Includes editing, color grading, sound mixing, subtitling, and formatting of SUGAR NOCTURNE and Unnamed Nightshade for proper screening and archival presentation.

2️⃣ Promotion & educational outreach materials

Produce press kits, educational slides, and event assets to bring the films into classrooms, screenings, and forums—maximizing public reach.

3️⃣ Future project development fund

Support Candy Bird’s next creative phase—research, residencies, and script development—to keep this journey alive beyond this campaign.

Your contribution will help these works leave the studio and step into society.

🎁 Supporter rewards｜Participate, circulate, collect

Supporting this project is not just about funding films—it’s about helping artistic voices travel farther.

All reward tiers include offline public screening rights for any two short films (up to 50 attendees). Use the films in classrooms, art spaces, community events, or any shared setting where dialogue can grow.

1️⃣ Screening Partner｜Public Use Plan

Ideal for educators, curators, and organizers—help circulate these works and ignite public conversations.

2️⃣ Producer Ally｜Sponsorship Plan

Become a credited producer and receive a mystery gift curated by Candy Bird—a memento of your solidarity.

3️⃣ Executive Patron｜Sponsorship Plan

Receive a producer credit and a hand-drawn storyboard or location sketch from Unnamed Nightshade or SUGAR NOCTURNE—a fragment of the creative spark.

4️⃣ Angel Patron｜Sponsorship Plan

Receive a producer credit and an original acrylic painting by Candy Bird—become a witness and companion to this journey.

🤝 This isn’t a transaction—it’s an act of collective memory

We believe that supporting an artist is a form of trust—a belief that art can pierce through systems and the everyday.

Candy Bird’s works won’t offer you easy answers. Instead, they invite you to confront the questions we’ve long ignored. That’s what makes them necessary—honest, hard to categorize, but essential.

Join us in helping these stories get completed—and seen.