Tony Wu Chun-Hui

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Tony Wu Chun-Hui

Born October 28, 1966 · Taitung, Taiwan (age 59)

Tony Wu Chun-Hui (吳俊輝) is a Taiwanese filmmaker born in Taitung in 1966. He holds a BFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. He is a co-founder and curator of Image–Movement Cinematheque. He lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.

Known For

Incarnation (Boy)Incarnation (Boy) · 2003
Incarnation (Boy)
2003
Movie
Incarnation (Boy) Negative & Positive evokes the ghosts from Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight. Boy images incarnate from found-footage film corpse. Boys and incarnation (boys) gaze at each other. Wu’s hand-processed 16 mm double projection employs negative and positive prints of the same snippet from appropriated porn film to summon an eerie doppelganger of erotic obsession.
Priscilla's DreamPriscilla's Dream · 2020
Priscilla's Dream
2020
Movie
PRISCILLA'S DREAM is a film about a cat's dream journey. The original film footage comes from the American director Carroll Ballard's 1969 film THE PERILS OF PRISCILLA. In PRISCILLA'S DREAM, real danger turns into an adventure in a dream. In the original film, Priscilla shuttles through the human home environment, and in PRISCILLA'S DREAM, she dreams of breaking away from human society, into the dream, into the state of flight in the dream, and finally out of the dream and into nature, and gaining complete freedom. This film removes the dangerous encounters and restrictions in the original film, changing the situation in which cats cannot escape from the human living environment.
Cloudy DaysCloudy Days · 2019
Cloudy Days
2019
MovieDrama
A-Yun, a middle-aged woman from Vietnam, remarries an old man in Taiwan, bringing along her little son from her first marriage. Devoted as she is to her new husband, she is not treated as a family member. In their suffocating marriage, there is no love, but rather daily routine. Repressed desire makes her turn to her stepchild, a considerate and amiable young man.
Taipei 4 WayTaipei 4 Way · 2005
Taipei 4 Way
2005
MovieDocumentary
Taipei 4-Way is a film on Taipei and the people of Taipei directed by four artists working in various art fields such as animation, installation documentary and experimental film. The film looks at Taipei as a whole through four sections titled' enTAIPEItrance,"traTAIPEIverse','adTAIPEIhere', and 'exTAIPEIit'.
The GardenThe Garden · 2012
The Garden
2012
MovieDrama
Living together with her father, Yao Shan has to readjust her life after her mother's death. Misunderstanding and tension between she and her dad builds up to an extent that her father wanted to move out of the house. After attending an overseas gardening course, her father steps into her mother's garden again. And this move seems to have changed everything between YaoHsuan and her father...
The GazeThe Gaze · 2022
The Gaze
2022
Movie
Wei-su gets injured. Her daughter rushes to the hospital. While looking after her, her daughter realizes how distant they are from each other, but they both long to be understood.

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