29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Time Splits in the Riverplay
Time Splits in the River

Time Splits in the River

Yu-Ping Wang, Chia-Hung Lee, I-Chieh Huang, Xuan-Zhen Liao / Taiwan / 2016 / International Premiere / 89 min.


synopsis

Four artists decide to make a film where apolitical parents play parts of dissidents from the 1980s. Later, they show them the footage, unfolding discussions about art and politics. A  fascinating conceptual therapy revolving around traumatic  events of the history of Taiwan combines a highly artistic style with the informal, echoing, in the best possible sense, the saying ‘the personal is political’. Idiosyncratic, half-improvised ‘performances’ of the protagonists, who embody a story from
the life and work of writer Shi Mingzheng, and the visual side of the film, just as poetic as it is funny, make this film a highly personal experience that is difficult to categorize.

“Through re-enacting the social minority’s experiences , the filmsheds light on new negotiations between the social majority and other dissidents, while exposing the impossibility of family communication.”




biography

Liao Xuan-Zhen (1993), Huang I-Chieh (1992), Lee Chia-Hung (1992) a Wang Yu-Ping (1993) are Taiwanese artists who met at
Taipei University; All four graduated in 2015. Together, they have initiated a number of art projects based on a specific collective awareness.

more about film

director: Yu-Ping Wang, Chia-Hung Lee, I-Chieh Huang, Xuan-Zhen Liao
cast: Kun-Ming Lee, Chih-Ming Wang, Nan-Yang Huang, Teng-Yen Liao, Hung-Li Li, Pao-Li Shih, Feng-Chin Kuo, Shu-Chin Tsai, Chiu-Lan Huang-Wei, Ping-Chieh Huang, Chiang Tai, Chia-Hung Lee
producer: I-Chieh Huang
music: Yi-De Chen, Yi-Shuo Lin

contact


I-CHIEH HUANG / ichiehhuang@gmail.com

Film at festival

premiere type:International Premiere
festival edition:2016
section:Opus Bonum
format:Video File
language:Chinese, Taiwanese
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Yu-Ping Wang, Chia-Hung Lee, I-Chieh Huang, Xuan-Zhen Liao
original title:錢江衍派
country:Taiwan
year:2016
running time:89 min.

Section


Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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