イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル 2020

Amateur in the Moon

HUANG Pang-chuan + LIN Chunni／digital／22min／2025

Centered around an episode in which amateur filmmaker YOSHIKAWA Hayao encounters Fritz LANG’s Woman in the Moon and sets out to make a science fiction movie, this work depicts the world of amateur cinema in pre-war Japan and Taiwan. While most works of this type were lost during the war, the two creators of this film shot it entirely on restored 9.5mm film. The result is a work that vividly recreates the passion of young people working in small-gauge film.

HUANG Pang-Chuan
HUANG Pang-Chuan was born in Taiwan and graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His works always contain three elements: memory, travel, and traditional film techniques. His films Return and Last Year When the Train Passed By won the Grand Prize of the Lab Competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festivalin in 2018 and 2019, two years in a row, and were selected for both Locarno Film Festival and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

LIN Chunni
LIN Chunni was born in Japan and graduated from a department of architecture. Her work explores film, spatial environments, and the history of prewar Taiwan. Yen Yen and Before the Dawn were selected for festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival.
Since 2019, HUANG and LIN have worked closely together, focusing on the history of small-gauge film and the colonial connections between prewar Japan and Taiwan. Their first feature-length documentary, Daughter of Nectar, has its international premiere at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2026.

Singing of the Evening Stars

Iris SANG／digital／23min／2026

A man wanders through nighttime Los Angeles. The birdsong that starts to echo in his ears eventually transforms the city lights into a flock of small birds. The wild nature that used to cover this area has now disappeared beneath rows of buildings. The song of the birds reawakens memories of this lost landscape and quietly brings to the surface the history carved into this land. A fantastical visual poem that blends city and wilderness, past and present.

Iris SANG (SANG Ni 桑霓)
Iris SANG (SANG Ni 桑霓) is a filmmaker, editor and curator based in Beijing. Drawing on Buddhist metaphysics, her films often take the form of hybrid multimedia works that explore the sensory body. Her films and installations have been shown at Visions du Réel, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, amongst others. She currently serves as a curator for BISFF’s Nova Competition.

走 (zǒu)

Hannah WU／digital／4min／2025

The filmmaker’s contemplation is sparked by the Chinese character 走 (walk) in her mother’s old Chinese-English dictionary. Through ink lines and direct painting on film, one image follows another as 走 takes various forms, touching on elements from its historical significance to personal memories. An experimental work that examines knowing about the world while wandering between words and images.

Hannah WU
Hannah WU is an artist and animator from London. Her work explores the cross-cultural possibilities of animation through analogue processes. She holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art. She has lived and studied in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship and Taiwan on the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship. She was recently awarded an artist residency at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.

Mwah to My New House!

YUKI Yoko／digital／11min／2025

A work based on the filmmaker’s childhood memories tinged with anxiety about losing her home and pet cat in a natural disaster. The filmmaker’s unique style that blends various techniques such as illustrations and paper cuttings is a perfect match for the light and boisterous narrative and dialogue reminiscent of children’s literature. Her deep love for her cat can also be seen in the animation infused with handmade warmth.

YUKI Yoko
YUKI Yoko is an animator and illustrator from Aichi, Japan, currently based in Tokyo. Her major works include See ya Mr. Banno! (2014), Zdravstvuite! (2015), A Snowflake into the Night (2018), and In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket (2022). She is currently working on the manga and illustrations for the ongoing series “Hello Witches!!” on the Kasama Shoin’s note.

Wind Gap

ZHENG LU Xinyuan／digital／30min／2026

Ming, who has unexpectedly gotten pregnant with her partner with whom she has remained involved mainly through inertia, sets out alone on an aimless journey to the China-Vietnam border. The forlornness of the protagonist wandering between dreams and reality in mist-covered mountains is captured with distinctive long shots using only wide-angle lenses. An offbeat road movie that portrays the subtleties of the thoughts and feelings of young people living in contemporary Chinese society.

ZHENG LU Xinyuan
ZHENG LU Xinyuan is a filmmaker from Hangzhou, China. Her essay film Jet Lag (2022) premiered at the 72nd Berlinale Forum. Her feature debut The Cloud in Her Room (2020) won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She cultivates a personal visual practice that explores the boundaries of medium as well as articulation itself.