Gazing‧Times: Twenty Years Through Sad City

Gazing silently at the heavy age,
Together we traveled through the most delicate and long scenery of that era

Twenty years ago, the New Wave movement of Taiwanese films reached its climax when "City of Sadness" won the 46th Venice Golden Lion Award; as the first film to represent Taiwan at an international film festival, "City of Sadness" contains Groundbreaking video aesthetics, taboo political themes at the time, and the delicate textures and smells of that era. As a film text, "City of Sadness" created the height of film art and also set a milestone of the times.

What makes this movie is the co-creation of every image in the movie, no matter whether it is the people inside or outside the screen, they have had countless nights and days of intense discussions; they run into each other and create the focused eyes of every detail; the long journey of creation The backs that come and go, the moments of sharing harvest, the most sincere tears; there are many more unfinished and dissatisfied scenery, all pass silently behind this movie.

However, these are really the most succinct fragments of the background of that era...

That is the life of the most authentic creators that this story will continue.