The Asian representation in Vienna Shorts this year was quite restricted with just 8 movies in the program. However, among those, there are definitely a couple of gems, while the diversity is impressive, since experimental, animation, comedy, horror, drama are just some of the elements that appear in the film. Without further ado, here is a list of all the Asian entries, in random order.
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Hito (2023) by Stephen Lopez
Stephen Lopez can easily be described as one of Khavn's “students”, since his chaotic style of filmmaking with the many, absurd vignettes, the constant mocking of a number of concepts including the title and his filmmaking itself, the music video aesthetics and the sociopolitical commentary are all elements found in Khavn's cinema. At the same time though, Lopez is somewhat more grounded in terms of his script,...
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Hito (2023) by Stephen Lopez
Stephen Lopez can easily be described as one of Khavn's “students”, since his chaotic style of filmmaking with the many, absurd vignettes, the constant mocking of a number of concepts including the title and his filmmaking itself, the music video aesthetics and the sociopolitical commentary are all elements found in Khavn's cinema. At the same time though, Lopez is somewhat more grounded in terms of his script,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Tank Fairy,” the latest short film from director Erich Rettstadt, opens with a definition for workers known in Taiwan as “song wa di se.” Their job is to deliver gas tanks door-to-door, and the definition comes with a reminder that they are “usually male, pot-belied, and lacking in glamour.”
“Tank Fairy” is screening at Vienna Shorts
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen).
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“Tank Fairy” is screening at Vienna Shorts
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen).
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- 6/4/2023
- by Henry McKeand
- AsianMoviePulse
“Tank Fairy,” the latest short film from director Erich Rettstadt, opens with a definition for workers known in Taiwan as “song wa di se.” Their job is to deliver gas tanks door-to-door, and the definition comes with a reminder that they are “usually male, pot-belied, and lacking in glamour.”
“Tank Fairy” is screening at New Filmmakers Los Angeles
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen...
“Tank Fairy” is screening at New Filmmakers Los Angeles
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen...
- 5/15/2023
- by Henry McKeand
- AsianMoviePulse
While it seems as if the current wave of conservatism, old-fashioned ideals and xenophobia has the upper hand at time, there is no denying the tremendous change the global village goes through. Reactionary thinking and the insistence of an image of the world, which probably never was that great as the speaker imagines it, are hopefully by-products of progress, one that has already redefined many parts of our daily lives. As our nations struggle or start to re-think their identity, we may observe the new openness of that concept, and hopefully be ready for it.
“Alifu, the Prince/ss” Screened at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ultimately, this change and how we react to it may prove our worth as a society and as human beings. For Taiwanese director Wang Yu-lin, the moment he began contemplating on why two people of the same sex could fall in love, started in...
“Alifu, the Prince/ss” Screened at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ultimately, this change and how we react to it may prove our worth as a society and as human beings. For Taiwanese director Wang Yu-lin, the moment he began contemplating on why two people of the same sex could fall in love, started in...
- 11/26/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Are you a boy or a girl?”
While it seems as if the current wave of conservatism, old-fashioned ideals and xenophobia has the upper hand at time, there is no denying the tremendous change the global village goes through. Reactionary thinking and the insistence of an image of the world, which probably never was that great as the speaker imagines it, are hopefully by-products of progress, one that has already redefined many parts of our daily lives. As our nations struggle or start to re-think their identity, we may observe the new openness of that concept, and hopefully be ready for it.
Ultimately, this change and how we react to it may prove our worth as a society and as human beings. For Taiwanese director Wang Yu-lin, the moment he began contemplating on why two people of the same sex could fall in love, started in his twenties while he was in the military.
While it seems as if the current wave of conservatism, old-fashioned ideals and xenophobia has the upper hand at time, there is no denying the tremendous change the global village goes through. Reactionary thinking and the insistence of an image of the world, which probably never was that great as the speaker imagines it, are hopefully by-products of progress, one that has already redefined many parts of our daily lives. As our nations struggle or start to re-think their identity, we may observe the new openness of that concept, and hopefully be ready for it.
Ultimately, this change and how we react to it may prove our worth as a society and as human beings. For Taiwanese director Wang Yu-lin, the moment he began contemplating on why two people of the same sex could fall in love, started in his twenties while he was in the military.
- 5/22/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Father To Son and The Bold, The Corrupt And The Beautiful were also big winners at awards held during Taipei Film Festival.
Sung Hsin-yin’s animated feature On Happiness Road won the $33,000 (Nt$1m) Grand Prize at this year’s Taipei Film Awards, while Dear Ex was the biggest winner overall with four prizes.
On Happiness Road, the story of a young woman reminiscing about her childhood after returning to Taiwan from the Us, also picked up the audience award and shared the Best Animation prize with Pan Sz-yu’s musical animation Neon.
Dear Ex (pictured), about a woman feuding...
Sung Hsin-yin’s animated feature On Happiness Road won the $33,000 (Nt$1m) Grand Prize at this year’s Taipei Film Awards, while Dear Ex was the biggest winner overall with four prizes.
On Happiness Road, the story of a young woman reminiscing about her childhood after returning to Taiwan from the Us, also picked up the audience award and shared the Best Animation prize with Pan Sz-yu’s musical animation Neon.
Dear Ex (pictured), about a woman feuding...
- 7/18/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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