P1 Richard CHEN Yao Chi’s Student Films, 1963-1966
4works 62min.
Theatre Image Forum（TOKYO）：9/17 10：30
The Archer
The Archer CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 5min. / 1963 / Taiwan
Through the Years CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 11min. / 1966 / Taiwan）
The Mountain CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 19min. / 1966 / Taiwan
Liu Pi Chia CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 27min. / 1967 / Taiwan
Born in Sichuan, China, in 1938, Richard Yao-chi Chen moved to Taiwan in 1945 where he studied architecture before relocating to the U.S. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and received his MA in film studies from UCLA in 1967, and then returned to Taiwan to embark on a successful filmmaking career in the Chinese-speaking world. This program features four films Chen made while studying at UCLA. The Archer is a hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns”. Through the Years touches on the theme of Westward expansion by combining facts with fiction. A film about three college students, The Mountain employs a modernist narrative to reflect young people’s longing for freedom in the 1960s. The original copy of this short lay forgotten in a UCLA professor’s garage for decades and was digitally restored by the Taiwan Film Institute in 2017. Liu Pi-Chia, a biographical documentary depicting the life of a veteran who joined tens of thousands of others to work on national infrastructure construction projects in the 1960s, is consid ered Taiwan’s first cinéma vérité film.
Through the Years CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 11min. / 1966 / Taiwan）
The Mountain CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 19min. / 1966 / Taiwan
Liu Pi Chia CHEN Yao Chi / 16mm (digital version) / 27min. / 1967 / Taiwan
Born in Sichuan, China, in 1938, Richard Yao-chi Chen moved to Taiwan in 1945 where he studied architecture before relocating to the U.S. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and received his MA in film studies from UCLA in 1967, and then returned to Taiwan to embark on a successful filmmaking career in the Chinese-speaking world. This program features four films Chen made while studying at UCLA. The Archer is a hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns”. Through the Years touches on the theme of Westward expansion by combining facts with fiction. A film about three college students, The Mountain employs a modernist narrative to reflect young people’s longing for freedom in the 1960s. The original copy of this short lay forgotten in a UCLA professor’s garage for decades and was digitally restored by the Taiwan Film Institute in 2017. Liu Pi-Chia, a biographical documentary depicting the life of a veteran who joined tens of thousands of others to work on national infrastructure construction projects in the 1960s, is consid ered Taiwan’s first cinéma vérité film.
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