Singing Chen — Director (9)

Movie

Bundled (2001)
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other title: 我叫阿銘啦 / Wo jiao A-Ming la
"I'm interested in the topic of homeless people and… there are a lot of things in this world that do not make sense." – Singing Chen Bundled is activist filmmaker Singing Chen's fiction/verite reflection on homelessness in Taiwan.

Movie

The Man Who Couldn't Leave (2022)
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陈芯宜 actor: 林钜 / 许时豪 …
other title: 無法離開的人 / The Man Who Couldn’t Leave
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.

Movie

In Trance We Gaze (2018)
Douban
other title: 恍惚与凝视的练习
在不断地规训收编下,仪式、信仰、身体、人与神的处境,都渐渐朝向失根、失去土地与人际链结的方向走去。时间受到更细微的切分,赶不上的、被弃的各种关系链......,在定格的凝视之中显现。无论是人或神,一切的毁坏与重生,在这之中相遇,寻找安住的角落。

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The Moving Tent (2018)
大帳篷-想像力的避難所 Douban
other title: 大帐篷-想象力的避难所 / 大帳篷-想像力的避難所
貨車駛入廣場,搭起臨時帳篷,觀眾進場,傾聽社會間隙微弱的聲音,見證帳篷成員集體建構的獨特美學,感受行動所展現的抵抗能量和反思,帳篷劇成了台上台下意念的匯流沸騰。導演以觀察者與參與者的雙重身份,逐年記錄帳篷在台灣及移動的歷程,在鏡頭下,十年收摺為可翻面攤開,重新思索的地圖。——TIDF手册

Movie

寻找乳房 (2018)
尋找乳房 Douban
★ 8.5 8 ratings
other title: 尋找乳房 / Body Talk
A documentary that speaks about how women experience, endure, and live with their bodies. A diverse group of women talk about their differential experience with the female body as they spiral through childhood, puberty, pregnancy, childbirth, illness, and aging. The film takes these private secrets about taboos, pain, and emotions these female individuals have about their body – which become personal and secret when these bodily experiences are not shared and discussed openly in society – and puts them on the social agenda. The gender roles and systematic standards forced on women’s bodies often result in women hating and being ashamed of their own bodies or desiring non-female bodies. There are emotions evoked due to the women’s internalized outsider view on their physical appearance, as well as emotions associated with the women’s body as the innate female experience of the body are stigmatized. In spite of these negative emotions and associations with their bodies, these women talk about the time they also felt a sense of wonder and beauty through their bodies during their interview.

Movie

God Man Dog (2007)
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★ 6.8 13 ratings
陈芯宜 actor: 高捷 / 张洋洋 …
other title: 流浪神狗人
A professional hand model Ching suffers from post-natal depression and her architect husband Hsuing is unable to deal with it, driving their marriage to the brink of collapse.

Movie

The Walkers (2014)
Douban
陈芯宜 actor: 林丽珍 / 陈念舟 …
other title: 行者 / 行者:林丽珍与无垢舞蹈剧场
一個驚艷國際的台灣舞蹈家,一部歷時十年的紀錄影像詩。《行者》自2004年起,記錄無垢舞蹈劇場藝術總監林麗珍,透過她的日常,提煉出舞蹈的最初原點。無論生活中的動與靜、常民廟宇間的觀察、台下竭盡力氣的排練、台上如儀式般的演出、自然荒野中的舞蹈電影,體現的不僅是舞蹈的美學本身,更是對天地生命更深沈的哲思。

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When Yesterday Comes (2012)
昨日的記憶 Douban
★ 6.2 8 ratings
何蔚庭 / 沈可尚 … actor: 张震 / 隋棠 …
other title: 昨日的记忆 / 昨日的記憶
《昨日的記憶》是由台灣最頂尖的年輕導演所分別執導的四段關懷失智老人的短篇故事,包含姜秀瓊的《迷路》描寫張震在街頭奔走尋找失智爺爺,卻與舊愛隋棠重逢,在所有人事已非的風景中,他們怎樣找回那些散失的片刻?而在生命中真正迷途的又是誰?何蔚庭的《我愛恰恰》從阿茲海默症患者視角出發,描寫失智老先生丁強在公園散步巧遇初戀情人馬之秦,當重逢變成首遇,最後的愛便像是初戀。沈可尚的《通電》疼惜那些背負生命重擔而不輕易言退的鬥士們,描述一直以為自己還是歌星的失智婆婆和心力交瘁的媽媽李烈,在女兒郭采潔的妙計之下如何找到新窗口。陳芯宜的《阿霞的掛鐘》將失智老人、與城市空間記憶的消失做聯結,感受老人面對快速變化的心境。

TV

四楼的天堂 (2021)
Douban
★ 7.3 15 ratings
黄秋生2020年5月12日在个人社交媒体上表示已经抵达台湾,此行的目的是拍摄台湾公视剧集《四楼的天堂》,此次是他首次拍台剧,虽然全是国语对白,但他表示完全没问题。