Tickets purchase via Filmhouse website 8 October 2021 My Missing Valentine 消失的情人節 Director CHEN Yu-Hsun / 2020 / Taiwan / 119 mins Hsiao-chi (Patty Lee) always rushes when doing everything; she rushes when singing in a choir and jumps into the swimming pool before anyone else; even when taking a picture, she acts at a quicker pace than the rest. Nevertheless, she is quite slow in her love life, remaining single as she approaches thirty. A quick and e...

2021 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Lee Mingwei: Six Stories   Artist LEE Mingwei (李明維) Born in Taiwan in 1964 and currently living in Paris and New York City, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking and conversation. Lee's projects are often open-ended s...

2021 Spotlight Taiwan  Lecture on Contemporary Art LIQUEERED: THE PERFORMANCE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF LIQUEFIED QUEERNESS Lecture by ARTIST YU Cheng-Ta (余政達)   Yu Cheng-Ta (b. 1983, Taiwan) The Taipei-based multimedia artist Yu Cheng-Ta’s work often involves verbal communication with the subjects and viewers in a playful manner to create the concept of “life theatre”, that is, deliberately setting up real life situations as the shooting sce...

Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Algorithms into Humanities - Conversation with Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang  Keynote Speaker: Minister Audrey Tang 唐鳳 (Digital Minister, Taiwan) Discussant: Dr Wayne Lai (University of British Columbia/Kelowna Taiwanese Cultural Society) Chaired by Dr Chia-Ling Yang (University of Edinburgh)   TIME 2 June 2021 5:00-6:00 pm (PDT, British Columbia) 3 June 2021 01:00-02:00 am (GMT, Edinburgh/London) ...