Special programme for the 38th Filmfest Dresden: SCREENING PROGRAM #2 - Shifting Frames: Taiwan

17.04.2026 19:00 Geh8 Kunst Raum Ateliers

Taiwan's multi-layered colonial history continues to shape different memories and realities of life, which are told in these films from perspectives beyond political power and inscribed in bodies, everyday practices and personal memories.

Film contributions to this screening:
Taipei Hours - Liang Hsuan Chen
The Mother's Voice - Kagaw Omin @kagawomin_works
Mental Alertness and Diagramming: Atmospheric - Esther Yi-Chun Lin @estlinher
Nocturnes of New Formosa Vol.1: Taste of Exile - Tzuan Wu @tzuan_wu
Cartographer - Cetus Chin-Yun Kun @cetus_kuo

Curated by Yen Yi Lee @_notesoncurating

The Currency Lab - Recht & Ordnung and the screening Shifting Frames: Taiwan are a project of the C.Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts in cooperation with Filmfest Dresden, Netzwerk Medien Kunst, geh8 and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, the TSMC Education and Culture Foundation and the National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.