Bedtime Stories
Whether you can’t sleep at night or simply don’t want to, here’s a “Sleep Aid Playlist” I’ve carefully selected—meant to be savored slowly. The inspiration came from my own experience: many nights, I’m exhausted yet wide awake. There are many possible reasons, but one of them is the reluctance to end the day—the quiet resistance to letting go of today. Learning to spend time with the night, to sit with it, sometimes helps us forget the mess of the daytime. So which one is real life—the hush of the night or the chaos of the day? Maybe we don’t need the answer just yet. These five films are best watched late at night, one quiet bite at a time. Let the stories unfold slowly… and gently guide you toward sleep.
台北／豆花／聽團／半夜／怕熱／飛蚊症／齒列不整／曾經塗鴉／現在畫畫／海景第一排／你好／阿鳥
5 films
The Man Who Has A Camera (Newly Scored by Lim Giong)
Tokyo-Ga (Digitally Remastered) (Only available in Taiwan)
Before the Dawn
A Morning in Taipei (Newly Scored by Lim Giong)
City of Jade
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.