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SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS

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.

Dates & Times

Edwards Mira Mesa

Saturday, November 9, 2024
12:40 pm