Screening Information
Venue: Impression Taiwan (Prinzenallee 60, 13359 Berlin)
Date: 22 April 2026
Time: 16:00 – 18:30
Ticket: This is a ticketed screening. Due to venue capacity, please purchase tickets in advance.
Description:
Shifting Frames: Taiwan in Berlin 🧸
Special additional film added for Berlin screening 💕
Taiwan’s layered colonial history has produced multiple, often conflicting ways of understanding the past.
As part of The Currency Lab – Law & Order, originally exhibited in Filmfest Dresden, with a special additional artist film added to the screening, this programme curated by Yen Yi Lee brings together six moving-image works by Taiwanese artists.
Having grown up in the post-Martial Law era during Taiwan’s democratization, these works examine how everyday people negotiate history from perspectives outside political power, and how these negotiations are carried within bodies and memories—shaping how people live, endure, and build stable lives.
Positioning Taiwan’s experience within an international context, the project speaks to global concerns around democracy, inclusion, and social stability in times of uncertainty.
Artist:
Screening Artists:
Liang Hsuan Chen — Taipei Hours (2017, 21m 16s)
Kagaw Omin — The Mother’s Voice (2025, 15m 51s)
Esther Yi-Chun Lin — Mental Alertness and Diagramming: Atmospheric (2023, 7m 33s)
Tzu-An Wu — Nocturnes of New Formosa Vol.1: Taste of Exile (2026, 10m 47s)
Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo — Cartographer (2020–2022, 28m 32s)
Li Hui Huang — Abandoning the Garden (2022, 19m 3s)
Credit:
In collaboration with Impression Taiwan
Special thanks to Musquiqui Chihying (artist), Sybille Neumeyer (artist)
Cover photo: Taipei Hours (2017) by Liang Hsuan Chen. Courtesy of the artist.
