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在對錯之外，有一座花園，我會在那與妳相遇
Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There is a Garden. I Will Meet You There
16 min. | HD | 1080p | single channe | stereo | 2023
Poem excerpt from
Rumi, A Great Wagon
Voiceover: Astrology Reading -
Amber Tang, Malka Xiaoxiao Yan | Cambodia Trip - Ko Kui-Chu
Animation:
Chia-Sheng Lin at FREEMANFREERUN
Sound Mixer:
Cheng Chou, Bon-Yu Liu at Seismic Sound Lab. Ltd.
Translator:
Hūi-hong Claire Âng, Lynn Wilsey
Archival Footage: Internet Archive, NASA Visualization Explorer, ESA/Hubble Images and Videos, Pexels
Archival Sound: rickaldo09, setunitman,16fpanskalan jiri, pappabert, mayelinorozco, ericnorctross81, timkahn at Freesound
Commissioned by the 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema
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Taking for inspiration a line by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi, "Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, there is a Garden. I Will Meet You There" (2023) is the account of a healing process and a meditation on human suffering. Combining found footage, documentation from the artist’s own travels, and animations of the mythological centaur Chiron (renowned as a healer and prophet), Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong… asks how spiritual practice can help us to move beyond individual subjectivity to perceive life and death from a cosmic perspective.
Text by Ben Easthamthe
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17 min| color/ BW | stereo | 1080p HD | 24p｜2018
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End Transmission
By Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong15 min. 40 sec. | HD | black & white | stereo | 2010
40th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Tiger Award nominee for short film 
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Transactions
7 min 42 sec | HD | Color | Stereo | 2008
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Migration is fact; immigration is destiny.
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