AWAKE BEFORE YOUR GAZE

In the ruins of a former military dormitory, two mixed-race children of the U.S. military in Taiwan–one speaking Hakka, the other Taiwanese–slowly uncover a history their faces and languages could never fully inhabit. A dual-channel, hypnotic narrative, resists fixed ways of seeing and speaking, and gives shape to voices and bodies long held in silence

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SHORTS: TAIWAN TALES

Shorts from Taiwan that explore the stuff of lore with a beloved from a past life, a missing cow, midwife apprentices, and hypnosis as a portal to a complicated home.