In 1989, Jun-Jieh Wang enrolled in Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, a year when the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the fall of Communism in the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. He was astonished by these dramatic events. Several issues concerning politics, ideologies, aesthetics as well as the forms, market and power of art had been preying on his mind for so long that he lost the ability to make artworks and even questioned the value of the existence of art. His passively reactionary state of mind in this period was clearly reflected in the works simulating low-quality B-movies or TV programs, such as Killer Girl, Odyssey III (1990), Love, Die, Daredevil, Odyssey IV (1991).
In 1989, Jun-Jieh Wang enrolled in Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, a year when the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the fall of Communism in the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. He was astonished by these dramatic events. Several issues concerning politics, ideologies, aesthetics as well as the forms, market and power of art had been preying on his mind for so long that he lost the ability to make artworks and even questioned the value of the existence of art. His passively reactionary state of mind in this period was clearly reflected in the works simulating low-quality B-movies or TV programs, such as Killer Girl, Odyssey III (1990), Love, Die, Daredevil, Odyssey IV (1991).
1990-01-30
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Experimental, Taïwanese, Short
0.0An impoverished young couple attempts to steal a boat to prove their love and worthiness to their son.
6.0A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims self-defence, but refuses to name the woman he was with at the speakeasy where Cooly was shot, and who could provide the alibi that would exonerate him from a murder charge. Galvin's continued pursuit of the woman's identity eventually leads to an unwelcome surprise.
6.5In 2007, a teen girl from a posh L.A. suburb must deal with the grizzly murder of her family while trapped in the company of their killers.
7.4As children play hide and seek, they witness a crime. Only Auguste, the youngest amongst them, no longer wants to carry the burden of keeping the grave secret. A poetically crafted miniature about guilt, betrayal and loyalty.
0.0Manny, a rebellious biker, must fight for justice when his younger brother is killed in a senseless police shooting. Harassed by those who have sworn to protect him, he finds parallels between his story and that of Jesus Christ, as he’s slowly nailed to a cross of his own.
0.0Jerry is a grouchy low-life who makes his dough snatching bags during the holiday shopping rush. Alvin is a lonely loser who loves Christmas maybe a little too much. And when a vindictive gangster names 'Uncle Santa' comes calling, these two misfits team up for the wackiest Christmas ever.
6.0Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.
0.0A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.
A voice-over. A car chase. A bank. Money. An old lady. Bonnie and Clyde. Guns. Bodies on the floor. Old factory. People running. Dogs barking. Shots in the dark. Life jump. Body hit. Breathtaking. Tongue kissing. Flash back. Shoot-out. In disorder of appearence.
A man and a little girl taken hostage during a bank raid end up trapped in a claustrophobic closed environment. This is the start of a painful prychological confrontation between the two prisoners...
7.0After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
0.0After doing something sinister, a man cleans and dresses up and leaves the house. Resting beside the river of Padma, he texts to someone and starts to wait. Undesired to him, an annoying man in white dress sits beside him and starts to chatter. Something mysterious awaits him.
The story of a man who dreams of his own murder and searches for the killer.
0.0When a voice from the past returns asking a favor, Sean Hunt is powerless to resist. But as the stakes raise, Sean quickly finds himself in over his head.
0.0The opener (and only episode, later restored as a short) for an unfinished third series finds a group of detectives assembled in Paris, where they're bumped off in the manner of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians). Copyrighted in 1988, but unreleased until 2014, when it surfaced on The Lost Worlds of Gerry Anderson DVD. It was later included as a bonus feature on the 2017 Dick Spanner DVD set.