Again the Ants Reincarnate
Adiong LU
Taiwan｜2022｜ Exp｜BW｜25 min｜ Mandarin, Taiwanese
Hello there, viewer. You’re looking at a picture scroll of a remote mountain cemetery southeast of metropolitan Taipei, the shady side of the wealthy world. Please observe silence. It’s autumn 2021; the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading around the globe. Inside the gate, a gravedigger, headless chickens, a dreamer, and a three-legged dog quietly appear with a touch of mysterious humor. They come out of the mountain’s pores. The sun rises as usual. Welcome.
Director
Adiong LU
Adiong LU was born in Chiayi, Taiwan in 1984. He fixes his gaze on people and places absent from official histories. A former director of Jittoku Films LTD, he is based in Taipei. His films include "The Boiling Water LAMA", "Once Upon a Time when Robin Hood Grew Old", "Crazy Calligraphy”, “Iâm-tiâⁿ Khu-tiúⁿ (Yancheng District Chief), and "THE Boy Q".
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11.17 ㊐ 12:30〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡★ Q&A session with the Director
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In the fall of 2021, the year of the pandemic, I came here with a camera. This is the backside of the mountain, a hidden land, not far from where I usually live; it’ s also a historical burying ground where thousands of corpses lie beneath the earth. I exchange a few idle words with the people I meet here; we have a strange, unspoken agreement. One day, I looked in the direction people on the mountain were pointing toward and found that the same sun shines down on the top of our heads, the living and the dead, you and me, and my newborn son.
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