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Short Film Happy Hour: Come early and enjoy our short film happy hour. IT'S FREE with a ticket to any 7pm weekday screening. Regular admission is only NT$50. The lineup includes Taiwan's best short films, like REFLECTION, produced by legendary Taiwanese filmmaker Wang Tong. There are also some great international shorts sprinkled in, including the winner of Best Short Film at Sundance 2011, BRICK NOVAX'S DIARY, and Cannes Festival official selection, LA RONDE.
Short Film Awards Ceremony: April 21 (Sat) 7:15pm. We'll present the short film jury awards. Admission is NT$50 at the door (no advance).
Audience Choice Award: Every time you attend a short film program, you can cast one ballot for the 2012 Urban Nomad Audience Choice Award (NT$10,000). Every ballot also gives you a chance to win dinner for two at Taipei's best gourmet burger restaurant, KGB.
Shorts 1: The Happy Hour Is On! 4/13(Fri) 6pm
徐韻涵 Shiu Yun-Han/2010/Taiwan/2min/no dialogue A WTF cell phone movie on a train. Arty and simple. 《女學生放課後2》After School 2 王天佑/2012/Taiwan/9min/中文/中文字幕 This film about girls washing clothes after school is kind of retarded, though in the funniest possible way.
Matt Peidmont/US/2011/15min/En/Ch Best Short Film Award at Sundance 2011 and a product of FunnyOrDie.com: Penniless and now living in a seedy motel with only weeks to live, international super legend Brick Novax records his amazing tales as an astronaut, movie star, corporate CEO, and famous musician to preserve his legacy as the coolest guy in the history of the world. Watch Trailer
莊景燊 Chuang Ching-shen/2012/Taiwan/29min/Ch/En Director Chuang Ching-shen was the producer of popular Taiwanese documentary Jump! Boys (翻滾吧男孩), and for this 29-minute short he got filmmaking legend Wang Tong (王童). Actress Chamder Tsai (蔡燦得) plays a woman who's divided between her job taking care of three retarded boys and the comfortable life her husband promises her. Eventually she learns how to be happy. |
Shorts 2：Good Dreams Bad Dreams 4/16(Mon) 6pm
江宜家 Chiang, I-Chia/2011/Taiwan/3min/no dialogue
林書玄 Lin Shu-Hsuan/2011/Taiwan/4min/no dialogue Simon is a stressed-out office work in an office that literally eats other buildings.  徐嘉凱/2011/Taiwan/23min/Ch/En 黃天語 Jeff Huang/2011/Taiwan/19min/Ch/En
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Shorts 3: I ♥ NY 4/17 (Tue) 6pm
畢佳翰 Pi Chia-Han/2012/Taiwan/3min/中文/英文 《回首迷途》Back to Memory 游正裕 Yu Cheng-yu/2010/Taiwan/10min/中文/英文
畢佳翰 Pi Chia-Han/2012/Taiwan/5min/英文/中文 It's 2020. The world's resources are dwindling. People have lost the ability to sleep. World War III is about to begin....  Edward Shieh/2010/US/Portugal/14min Breaking up is never easy. No one ever knows what to say. Yet somehow the words are the same in every language. This narrative short has an extensive film festival resume and makes it Taiwan debut here.  Matt Finlin/2011/USA/28min/英文/中文字幕 A documentary about the musicians that perform in the subway trains and on the subway platforms of New York City. The doc is both a gritty and sentimental portrait of musicians who truly play for the love of it. |
Shorts 4: 4 Ur Life 4/18 (Wed) 6pm
吳梓安 Wu Tzu-An/2011/US/4min/中/英 《阿甘》 A Gump 范曉嵐 Fan Hsiao-Lan/2010/Taiwan/8min/中文/英文 A Gump is an overstressed kid, but what is the secret he's hiding?  Jason Sedor/2011/Taiwan/5min/無對話 Surfing without a board + a soundtrack by the Shine Shine Shine Shine. You're gonna get, like, so pitted dude!
Luis Francisco Perez/2011/Spain/19min/ 西班牙話/英/中 Facebook love. In this Spanish short film, a guy tries to find a girl who's interested in him... by chasing down every girl on a Facebook event page. lol  David Frazier, Sarah Tadayon/2012/Taiwan/13min/英文/中文 Sarah, A southern California girl with dreams of a film career ends up in Taiwan as a professional talk show guest, after her mom sends her demo tape to a popular variety show. She finds that "anybody can be on TV in Taiwan." But what does it take to stay there? |
Shorts 5: Past/Present 4/19 (Thu) 6pm
Ahand Chao 趙家賢/2012/Taiwan/3min/Ch/En A boy, an apartment, and a girl who might be from outer space. Watch Trailer
Sophie Goyette/2011/Canada/23min/French/En/Ch This short was accepted to some very big film festivals, including Cannes, Locarno and Toronto. The production house is also responsible for Daniel Villaneuve's Incendies. Here, director Sophie Goyette offers a teenage girl's moving pilgrimage through a troubled suburban life. What emerges is a singular meditation on leaving, loss and the thoughts that come over a person in the night.
Jen-Hsiu Liu 劉任修/2011/Taiwan/32min/Ch/En Zi-hao is a young real estate agent assigned to buy an aging woman out of her storefront to make way for a new development. But the woman doesn't want to sell. Zi-hao must enter the woman's life to find out why, and in doing so, he finds a conflict between career success and compassion for others. Watch Trailer |
Shorts 6: Get Your Art On! 4/20 (Fri) 6pm
Lin I Chen/2011/Taiwan/4min/中文/英文/Ch/En 主角生活在一個密閉空間，空無一物的四周主角所能做的一件事就是用槌子和釘子這僅有的兩樣工具在牆壁上鑿洞。日復一日重複同樣的動作，不過在相同的第無法計算到底打了幾次的洞裡，奇妙的事情發生。 《她的夢靨》Her Mare 李宜珊 Jovi Lee/2012/Taiwan/4min/中文/英文/ Experimental film about a girl-style nightmare.
Chim↑Pom/2012/Taiwan/Japan/4min/無對話 Chim↑Pom is an internationally famous Japanese video art group (did you see the article about them in the Economist a couple weeks ago?) that has the coolest way of mixing up punk rock attitude and socially conscious commentary. This is their solution to Taipei's air pollution problem. 《在廢墟看見一道彩虹》A Rainbow Over the Ruins Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo 羅秀芝/2012/Taiwan/30min/中/英 Artist Yao Jui-chung and LSD (Lost Society Document) have spent recent years investigating Taiwan's "mosquito museums", documenting vast sums the government spent to build buildings no one uses. Filmmaker and independent curator Sandy Lo has produced this documentary about the project, screened her for the second time ever. |
Short Film Awards 4/21 (Sat) 7:15pm
 盧冠廷, 李永超 /2011/Taiwan/10min/Ch/En This doc brings in Waltz with Bashir-style animated sequences to tell the story of Burmese immigrants as they try to eke out a living in Taipei.
黃明正/2010/Taiwan/19min/Ch/En Acrobat and dancer Huang Ming-cheng is known for handstands. That's why he calls himself "Mr. Candle". In 2010, he went on walkabout all around Taiwan, practicing his strange art and giving street performances. This doc about that trip manages to be both introspective and feel-good at the same time.
Ho, Wei-Ming/2010/Taiwan/7min/no dialogue Artists who project images onto buildings, viewing themselves as urban terrorists.
蔡旭晟 Tsai, Shui-cheng/2011/ Taiwan/ 24min/ Taiwanese/Ch/En In a brilliant bit of anime that recalls the work of Japan's Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), a young boy wanders into a dilapidated temple in the Taiwanese countryside, where he encounters an array of gods in a sequence that hovers somewhere between magical and outright psychadelic. Watch Trailer  黃柔嘉 Jou-chia Huang/2011/US/Taiwan/ 22min/En/Ch Lost in worlds of their own, a father and son journey towards reconciliation oceans apart while a young girl struggles to discover the world on her own terms. The film also features pretty much everyone you'd see at Bobwunday on open mic night. |
