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SHORTS: TO LIVE AND DIE IN TAIPEI

  • 75 mins

The two most acclaimed recent shorts from Taiwan are accompanied by a diptych from one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers.

In this program


Good Day

Directed by Zhang Zhi-teng

A hapless father decides to go golfing during a typhoon—only his golf clubs are at the home of a wife trying to divorce him.

The Making of Crime Scenes

Directed by Hsu Che-Yu

In 1984, KMT operative Wu Dun famously assassinated dissident writer Henry Liu in the Bay Area. Less known is that Wu Dun was also a movie producer. An eerie compilation of interviews, digital re-enactments, and movie martial arts.

The Moon and the Tree

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang

Director Tsai Ming-liang captures moments with two Taiwanese artists: Lee Pei-jing, former pop star, now undergoing physical therapy, and Chang Feng, the late actor of film and television.

Dates & Times

Past

UCSD PRICE CENTER THEATER

Sat, Nov 5
4:55 pm