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“Sweet & Sticky” (RT: 69 min.)
Love present, past and long lost form the connecting fabric of this set of works. From dreamy and surreal tales of infatuation and misplaced devotions to the painful processes of breaking up and moving on, this program is, if you look at it in a certain way, actually quite therapeutic.
SUGAR INC.
(Australia, 2001) Director: Clara Chong
A young dessert chef longs to join the magical world of the ultimate dessert empire “Sugar Inc.” where test tubes and feather plumes meet crystalline mazes and puffs of meringue. A simple idea wrapped in layers of cognition and emotion. Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch…only from the heart can true creative passion be born.
Beta SP, 15 minutes, Narrative Short Video
NOTHING ABOUT LOVE
(United States/Taiwan, 2002) Director: Chuang Wen-Yao
Yaoyao, a twenty-something year-old woman, falls in love at first sight with a successful film director ten years her senior. In the beginning of the relationship, she truly believes that love can overcome any age and social barrier imposed by family and friends. In the end, the relationship fails and Yaoyao loses almost all her sense of dignity, but she comes away gaining a sense of what “true love” really is.
Beta SP, 19 minutes, Narrative Short Video
JUN & XIN
(Singapore/United States, 2002) Director: Yong Mun Chee
Jun wants to tell his sister he’s just broken up with his boyfriend of three years.
Betacam SP, 8 minutes, Narrative Short Video
A PICTURE OF ME WITHOUT YOU
(United States, 2002) Director: Isa S. Chu
Love feels so good and so right, even long after the relationship is long past. A powerful visual interpretation of a spoken-word tome.
Beta SP, 5 minutes, Narrative Short Video
ANNIVERSARY
(United States, 2002) Director: Ron Domingo
A surprise phone call forces two ex-lovers to come to terms with their past and look to their futures.
Beta SP, 6 minutes, Narrative Short Video
CHAPTER 21
(2002, United States) Director: James Huang
At seventeen, Mike’s just been kicked out of boarding school for the last time, and must sneak home to say goodbye to his young sister before running away. Set against the luscious backdrop of daybreak in the Hollywood Hills, CHAPTER 21 brings a poignant moment of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” into clear focus in the context of a modern Asian-American household.
3/4-inch, 16 minutes, Narrative Short Video
