{"id":9370,"date":"2025-05-13T19:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:59:28","slug":"four-views-of-kaohsiung-minikino-monthly-screening-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/four-views-of-kaohsiung-minikino-monthly-screening-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Views of Kaohsiung: Minikino Monthly Screening April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April\u2019s Minikino Monthly Screening &amp; Discussion (MMSD) offers a look into the city of Kaohsiung, a major coastal port in the south of Taiwan. The four short films which make up the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/en\/mmsd-april-2025-kaohsiung-shorts-film-archive-en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaohsiung Shorts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program were produced under a production grant by the Kaohsiung Film Archive (KFA). Participating filmmakers were encouraged to reside in and use the city as a creative springboard, yet are otherwise given free reign over themes and story. While the four titles themselves could not be more different in terms of subject matter, genre, and aesthetics\u2014all of them share the common thread of the unseen urban identity that makes the southern Taiwanese city on the coast itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are first brought to the realm between the reality and dream world with a mother and her late daughter in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dream Will Carry Us<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u6cf3\u591c, Taiwan, 2023) by Lin Po-yu. Lurking at the corner of the cityscape lives a family in a drug party warehouse in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Deaths<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u4e00\u9ede\u4e00\u6ef4\u7684\u6b7b, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiwan, 2023) by Liu Chun-yu. Then, in another post-apocalyptic reality, a couple had to survive through the post-apocalyptic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Longest Night <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(\u9577\u591c, Taiwan, 2023) by Liang Hong-kai. In the end, we were brought back to another vast natural landscape in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J is Just For Afternoon Thunderstorm<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u5c71\u96e8\u6b32\u4f86, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiwan, 2023) by Chuang Yun-Hslang. Each place contains different stories hidden beyond the city\u2019s surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9378\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9378 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL-1536x924.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/The-dream-will-carry-us-STILL.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dream Will Carry Us Film Stills. doc: Kaohsiung Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><b>On the Beach at Night<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story development of Lin Po-Yu\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dream Will Carry Us<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023) ignited by a dream of his father, fifteen years after his passing. Wanting to capture the warmth of entering the ocean in reverie, he then wrote and directed this short film about a grieving mother and her long lost daughter. The two made their way through the city at night, through the empty nighttime streets and eventually landed atop a hill, raquettes in hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badminton is a popular family sport in Taiwan, and its inclusion here signifies the short\u2019s thematic statement\u2014it\u2019s a game that requires two; instantly collapsing with only one player. In much the same way, cities are only meaningful insofar as there are people with whom you\u2019d like to share it. When the daughter left the mother alone mid-serve, she too abandoned this space\u2014the well-defined urban landscapes collapsed and in its place there was only absolute darkness and the sound of crashing waves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What follows is the short\u2019s most difficult sequence. During our conversation online in his visit to Bali, Indonesia for MMSD, Po-Yu told us that he wanted to take on the challenge of filming primarily at night as a follow up to his previous short film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To the Sea<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u770b\u6d77; Lin Po-Yu, Taiwan, 2021), which showcased Kaohsiung under the sunshine. To do this, he had to deal with chilling ocean temperatures and dim natural moonlight, not to mention blocking off an entire street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the film\u2019s most powerful sequence lies in the absence of these views\u2014when we as the audience are lost without sight, just like the mother in search of her daughter, unable to carry herself into the future. Strengthened by an incredibly patient camera which refuses to rush through moments, this short film invites us to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> look and sit with those dreams of what we\u2019ve lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9379\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9379 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still-1536x924.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Little-Deaths_still.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Deaths Film Still. Doc: Kaohsiung Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><b>Looking for Sanctuary in an Indifferent<\/b> <b>World<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Deaths<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(2023), a totally different life emerges in a corner of Kaohsiung where the marginalized collective: a mother and her two daughters, Chieh and Chun. They live in a cramped warehouse where drug parties and rats are ever-present. The reality they live in is divided into the human and animal worlds. It&#8217;s only when the animals don&#8217;t collide with their world that Chieh and Chun can live normally as kids. But, it seems that rats often come into their lives even though they have been exterminated many times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, we can sympathize with Chun&#8217;s horrid feelings when her mother and sister indifferently burn the rats in the warehouse until we see through Chun&#8217;s eyes to understand the horrible things that happen to her family. Just like Chun, we see things through her innocent view that is constantly being debunked by glimpses of the animal world. The sound of rats being burned in a barrel at the film&#8217;s beginning reappears at the climax, blending with the sound of the mattress squeaking when Chun tries to escape from the animal world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only person Chun can rely on is her older sister, Chieh. Together, they seek a world where they can live without the disturbance of irresponsible adults. That is until Chun had to deal with it herself to end her misery. Without her sister, Chun&#8217;s safest place is an old fridge, where she escapes from the reality of the world that is indifferent and corrupt. The deaths of the rats that were never shown at the beginning are a sign of the deaths of the next &#8216;rats&#8217; whose deaths are also not shown. Are these rats actually dead? Or will killing these rats on an individual scale, as Chun did, change her situation?<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9381\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9381 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still-1024x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still-1536x912.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Longest-Night-still.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longest Night Film Stills. Doc: Kaohsiung Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><b>A Political Thriller<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard first coined the term \u201chyperreality\u201d in his 1981 magnum opus <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simulacra and Simulation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In it, he described a generation existing with \u201cmodels of the real without origin or reality\u201d, a state of cultural confusion in which the real and its substitutes blur together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liang Hong-Kai\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Longest Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023) situates this concept within the post-pandemic world. It follows a young man, living in the ruins of a city under perpetual night. Indifferent soldiers in gas masks prowl the dark alleyways in search of people to kill, all while our main character is engaged in his own quest for answers. Was it some sort of a natural cataclysm? A plague? All-out war? Nobody knows, and this inability to discriminate between real and unreal terrorizes our protagonist more than all the violence around him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steeped in grim symbolism and politically-charged visual metaphors, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Longest Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023) presents the metropolis as an indifferent entity\u2014one bordering on Lovecraftian incomprehensibility in its violence towards its inhabitants. Its dystopian vision full of body horrors serves a prescient warning; this is the world of man wrought under the animalistic violence of militarism. The ghosts of the past in a brand new hazmat suit. It might sound depressing, yet its main character\u2019s tragic end also serves as a celebration of that innate desire for truth-seeking\u2014the light that will always exist, regardless of how long the night is.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9382\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9382 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still-1536x924.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/J-is-for-Just-an-afternoon-thunderstorm_still.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J is for Just an Afternoon Thunderstorm Film Still. Doc: Kaohsiung Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><b>Survival of the Fittest through a Thunderstorm<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, our portrait of Kaohsiung broadens through <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J is for Just An Afternoon Thunderstorm<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023). The vast natural landscapes featured in the short often stands for the character&#8217;s vulnerability, as the visual of giant rocky cliffs standing tall over them bears witness over the unravelling of their feelings\u2014of love, fear, and cowardice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M and Jiang are a couple on vacation together. They are polar opposites: M is brave, carefree, and quite mischievous, whereas Jiang is timid, insecure, and more grounded. Their exploration comes with beautiful scenery one can&#8217;t find on the regular route. But there, their relationship starts to be shaken by the sudden appearance of a naked, foreign stranger who offers a more adventurous way to enjoy nature. The bare natural landscape and the stranger juxtaposed with M and Jiang, who look alienated from the rest of the place, which eventually will lead the couple to choose whether to adjust or stand like a sore thumb in an inevitably new environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visuals in this film went progressively broader, along with the narrative of a detached couple. What was first shown in a cramped car and narrow bridge where they talked about their open relationship and dreams gradually evolved into an open space where their intimate conversation ended. Throughout the film, the two are almost inseparable. From the beginning, we can always see them within the frame. As the landscape broadens, it&#8217;s as if the place gave them more space to move to the point that we can see them as individuals for the first time after a while, eventually separating the couple from frame to frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of the film, it seems like their separation has been warned, a sword of Damocles looming over the couple. The thunderstorm will inevitably happen to them. Apparently, the thunderstorm comes in the form of a choice M has to make for their relationship: to go over a seemingly challenging life, which is unpredictable but liberating, or to stay in a cracking relationship that was keeping him on a leash.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>The Short Film as an Urban Chronicler<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes a city? Ask ten people and you\u2019ll get ten different, incomplete answers. Fortunately, some people might agree that this is a puzzle that can be solved by making and watching some short films. Every filmmaker will inevitably have something to say about the city wherein they worked their craft. This is doubly true in the case of short films, where the smaller scale often necessitates greater intimacy with its shooting locations. Each of the four short films in \u201cKaohsiung Shorts\u201d reveal this hidden delight; a more intimate look beyond the surface of the city in which these four short films were made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Editor: <a href=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/articles\/author\/edowulia\">Edo Wulia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WRITER&#8217;S PROFILES<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"25%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14021\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/filmweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/AUDIE-ffwriter-2025-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"75%\"><b>AUDIE FERRELL<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surabaya, Indonesia<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audie was born in Surabaya, raised in Jakarta and Denpasar, and feels home wherever there&#8217;s a movie screen. Aside from debating and studying English literature at Petra Christian University, he mostly spends his time writing about the intersection between film, history, economics, and environmental engineering.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"25%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14019\" src=\"https:\/\/minikino.org\/filmweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/RARA-ffwriter-2025.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" width=\"75%\"><b>RAHMANIA NERVA<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depok, Indonesia<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rara is a writer based in Depok, West Java. Sometimes a copywriter, film essayist, or otherwise engaged in visual artworks. Constantly learning about art activism, decolonization practices, film, and literature, which she takes utmost interest in.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April\u2019s Minikino Monthly Screening &amp; Discussion (MMSD) offers a look into the city of Kaohsiung, a major coastal port in the south of Taiwan. The four short films which make up the Kaohsiung Shorts program were produced under a production grant by the Kaohsiung Film Archive (KFA). 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