Future Audience｜Tokusatsu Screening Room

Since the early 21st century, the Taishin Arts Award has actively engaged in dialogue with the global trend of "expanded cinema." Today, the time and form in which "cinema" occurs continues to diversify. As part of the NEXT—20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Taishin Arts Award, the “Special Effects Screening Room” explores this multiplicity through video art, multimedia performances, VR films, and even AI-generated scripts. In line with this expanded vision, we have curated a special online program in collaboration with Giloo Documentary Platform. Here, "viewing" becomes a ritual of witnessing. This extended screening includes Huang Ming-chuan’s Myth Trilogy, Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs, Hsu Che-Yu’s Manufactured Landscape and Replica, Su Yu-Hsien’s The Chairs, Yuan Goang-Ming’s 1990s Golden Harvest Award-winning About the Way Back Home, Wang Jun-Jie’s Sin City 00:00:00:00 (never officially released in cinematic format), and this year’s Taishin Grand Prize winner Lee I-Fan’s Excuse Me… How Do You Open This? Through this intimate mode of online viewing—more private than a gallery or cinema—we invite you to become a new kind of "future audience."