UnderU’s two-album compilation showcases a wide variety of talent from the country of Taiwan. Its considered selection has things in the favorite styles that you want to hear new works in as well as experimental tracks that break up the set and bring each track and collaborator’s unique character to the forefront... Read More
SueAnn Shiah’s HuanDao is not only an able take on Taiwanese-American identity, but an impressive showing from a young documentary filmmaker, considering that the film was shot when Shiah was 22... Read More
The live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell evidences tone deaf attempts to deal with the whitewashing controversy and a dumbing down of the Ghost in the Shell franchise’s complex intellectual themes... Read More
If the Chinese government wishes for Chinese films to circulate internationally, China simply needs to produce better films, which not only an international audience, but first a Chinese audience at home, will find enjoyable... Read More
Now that The Great Wall is finally out, we can finally make our judgements about it as a film in and of itself, rather than basing our impressions on trailers. The film ultimately reveals far more complicated racial dynamics than simply just Hollywood "whitewashing"... Read More
Fight For Justice is a film focusing on prominent activist lawyers who have recently emerged in Taiwan, following the lives of several such lawyers through some of Taiwan’s high-profile legal cases in recent years... Read More
Taiwanese sound art pioneer Wang Fujui’s solo exhibition at Project Fulfill Art Space, “Transparent Imagery of Sounds”, largely consists of meditations on the influence of random chance in art and intermediality... Read More
The firing of Taiwanese actress Irene Chen from the cast of the upcoming Chinese film GF Vending Machine for pro-Sunflower movement political views would be nothing new, regarding identity struggles in the Sinophone entertainment industry... Read More
The International Design House Exhibition caps off Taipei’s time as World Design Capital 2016, but ultimately presents a vision of the city as an aestheticized consumer capital through an overemphasis on designer consumer products... Read More
