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In the 1960s, an avant-garde film/video movement emerged in Taiwan as a post-war generation was exposed to international art movements after studying abroad. Filled with disgust for war, these artists also rebelled against traditional Chinese and Japanese aesthetics, embracing modern art practices from across the world, placing influences of Dada, surrealism and other modernist movements into dialog with (and opposition to) traditional Chinese and Japanese aesthetics. Since this moment, a small but engaged avant-garde film culture has persisted in Taiwan with contemporary work influenced by these earlier practitioners while continuing to explore such issues as cultural marginalisation, obscurity and the sense of multiple identity as informed by fifty years of Japanese colonization and post-war autocratic governance. 

Then＜·＞Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Art, curated by filmmaker Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, was a three-program series presented at Los Angeles Filmforum March 2025 which included twelve works representing this artistic lineage. In response, San Francisco Cinematheque is proud this single-evening distillation of this series presented, including six works created 1989–2018 by artists Goang-Ming YUAN, Yen-Chao LIN, Mi-Sen WU, Tsen-Chu HSU, Tzu-An WU and Chun-Hui WU.

This screening is presented by San Francisco Cinematheque. Full details and curatorial statement here.

TRT: 83 minutes