2024-2025 Taoyuan Documentary Project
This year's Taoyuan Documentary Project spanned six months. Through filmmaking courses and one-on-one mentor guidance, ten diverse and richly themed documentary projects were completed. The subjects explored include issues of life and death and the emotions of surviving family members, family relationships, labor visuals, solitary life in old age, the experiences of migrant workers and the Muslim community, intimate relationship scams, and the connection between rivers and life.
8 films
The Path of the River
Lure of Love
Lina
As-salāmu ʿalaykum
Under the Green
To burn some days into memory for you
For One
Well-Intentioned
Popular
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.