SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
- Shorts
- 74 mins
Two- and four-legged encounters, the winged and the wondrous. These short films from Taiwan feature animals to track the footsteps between the ecological, the economic, and the enigmatic.
As part of the Taiwan Showcase, this screening is FREE for UCSD students, faculty, and staff with ID.
In this program
The Horse
Directed by Lan Yi-tzu
Superstar Mavis Fan plays a young woman dealing with the emotions of moving out of her apartment. Then a horse appears.
Tayal Forest Club
Directed by Laha Mebow
Two Atayal teenage boys lost in the woods meet an ancestral spirit, who may or may not be the town drunk.
The Stag
Directed by An Chu
A portrait of a man and his two sons, working in a deer antler harvesting farm.
Bird-Window Collisions
Directed by Hu Chin-ya, Song Cheng-ying
Two graduate students study the remains of birds to make a case against their silent killers: the giant glass windows everywhere in the modern metropolis.