The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) will be virtual and starts today, August 28th. The lineup features many Taiwan films. To buy tickets or for more info, visit: http://nyaff.org – Wild Sparrow (Shih Li, 2019), New York Premiere. Co-Presented with the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art – Detention (John Hsu, 2019), New York Premiere – IWeirDO (Liao Ming-yi, 2020), US Premiere. Co-Presented with the Freer and Sackler Galleries,…
The film begins with the universal cues of an orchestral warm up: a retrieved violin bow, the tell-tale crisp sleeves and cuff links of performance attire, the scrambling annotations, the conductor’s swelling flourish. This could be anywhere, until we catch glimpses of something cheerfully familiar, locating us in the heart of Taiwan: the interior of a double-decker bus (equipped with karaoke screens), a cup of bubble tea. Hwang’s recent documentary Between the Notes, now playing…
