Selections of Chu-chen Hsiao
Veteran Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chu-chen Hsiao has long focused on Taiwan’s history, grassroots culture, and collective memory. Through a deeply humanistic lens, she captures overlooked stories with nuance and care. She won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary for two consecutive years with The Legend of the Red Leaf and The Silver Hairpin. Her films The Dove Project: 20 Years of Taiwan New Cinema and How We Make Films document the creative journeys of dozens of Taiwanese filmmakers, and are considered essential works in the study of Taiwanese cinema.
AuthorGiloo紀實影音源自於「紀錄」的發音，是台灣唯一以影展及議題為導向的影音平台，搜羅台灣與全世界最重要的電影，致力打造影迷與知識影像的文化社群。
7 films
A Chip Odyssey
On the train
The Dreamer
Our Time Our Story: 20 Years' New Taiwan Cinema
Face Taiwan: Power of Taiwan Cinema
The Red Leaf Legend
Grandma's Hairpin
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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.