Writer-director Wang Chun-Hong, a photographer born in Taiwan, plays the young male protagonist in his debut feature set in Taipei at a crucial period of history: the Taiwan presidential election in January 2020. Nearly thirty, he reflects on his past, present, and possible future. Inspired to imagine his film – about a young man trapped by the unknown – on seeing a photograph of a group of people watching two planes in the sky, and merging documentary and auto-fiction, he forges his own cinematic visual style, a blended language of image overlays, mirror-images, panning, and long takes.

Preceded by short film A Moment Twice Lived (Martin Healy, Ireland, 12 mins) selected in partnership with aemi, a Dublin-based initiative that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers. This film explores our perception of the passage of time through the subjective experience of memory, ageing and dreaming. The screening will be introduced by director Martin Healy.

Screening as part of the East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) 2023.