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Chen Singing
Singing Chen's work encompasses fiction, documentary and VR films and has received numerous festival accolades. Her debut Bundled (2000) competed at Vancouver and God, Man, Dog (2007) screened at Berlinale, VIFF, HK, Busan and elsewhere. Chen's documentaries detail artistic practice and the environment. Through VR technology she explores space and movement. Her latest VR experience The Man Who Couldn't Leave (2022) won Venice Immersive Best Experience at 79th Venice International Film Festival. Her new project The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up has been selected for the 2023 Venice Gap-Financing Market, and she will also serve as the President of the Jury for the 80th Venice Immersive Competition. Chen's collective work is marked by a deep empathy for disenfranchised characters and a strong sense of social justice.
Awards:
Kaohsiung XR Dreamland 2022 - VR 360 Award
Venice Immersive 2022 - Best Experience
New Images 2023 - Special cinematographic mention + Public Award
Artwork
The Man Who Couldn’t Leave
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Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taipei. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.
The Man Who Couldn’t Leave integrates the stories of numerous political victims of the White Terror and told through the form of an undelivered family letter. An immersive VR experience of hope, fear and camaraderie.
