Digital Guanyin
Armaan Tagore
Taiwan
Language: English
Year: 2026
Format: Animation
TRT: 10:00 min
Synopsis: Digital Guanyin is an audiovisual, 3D-animated, code-generated film that explores Guanyin as a figure of translation and compassion. Simulating “binary” systems in nature, the work challenges fixed oppositions and reflects on how gradients of meaning and transformation emerge through combination rather than isolation. Layered with analog and digital harmonies alongside nianfo 念佛 recitations, the piece invites viewers to approach Guanyin’s upaya through a technological and humanitarian lens to ultimately understand how radical acceptance and compassion for others can be convenient and enlightening.
本作品是一部結合視聽、3D 動畫與程式碼生成的影像作品，將觀音視為一個蘊含「翻譯」與「慈悲」意象的符號展開探索。作品模擬自然界中的「二元」系統，藉此挑戰非黑即白的僵化對立，並反思意義的漸層與轉化如何透過「結合」而非「孤立」而顯現。全片層疊交織著類比與數位的和聲，並伴隨念佛的誦經聲，邀請觀者透過科技與人文的雙重鏡頭去觸碰觀音的「方便法門」（upaya），最終體悟到：對他人的徹底接納與慈悲，如何能成為一種通往點化與覺悟的「方便」之路。
Filmmaker’s bio: Armaan Tagore is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician from New York City. He is deeply interested in the role technology plays in disseminating information and its potential to help people come together and work towards a better world. His work emphasizes the way digital media like video, images, and text can combine aesthetics with functionality to optimize meaning-making and the spread of human-centered ideas.
Armaan Tagore 是一位來自紐約市的跨領域藝術家與音樂家。他深切關注科技在資訊傳播中所扮演的角色，以及科技在凝聚大眾、共同打造更美好世界上的潛能。他的創作強調錄像、圖像與文本等數位媒體如何將美學與功能性相結合，以此優化意義的建構（meaning-making），並推動以人為本（human-centered）觀念的傳播。
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Girl Mirage
Johan Amatsakio
Country: United Kingdom, Indonesia
Language: English, Dutch
Year: 2026
Format: Digital, Color
TRT: 20 min
Synopsis: Girl Mirage is an experimental essay film that collages memories of the past and present as a tribute to the girl who chose otherwise. Created for an extra-credit university programme, it follows the filmmaker’s return to Yogyakarta twenty years after their first trip with their family, including their Oma. By returning to Indonesia as an adult and navigating gender transition, the film explores shifting identity in bodies, place, language, and cultural representation.
《女孩海市蜃樓》是一部實驗散文電影，將過去與現在的記憶拼貼在一起，以此向那位做出不同選擇的女孩致敬。本片最初是為大學的一項加分計畫而創作，記錄了導演在與包括祖母（Oma）在內的家人首次前往日惹（Yogyakarta）二十年後的舊地重遊。透過成年後重返印尼並經歷性別轉變的歷程，影片探索了身體、地方、語言與文化再現中不斷轉移的認同。
Filmmaker’s bio: Johan Amatsakio is a British and Dutch-Surinamese-Javanese writer, performer, game developer, and drag artist. Performing as their masked, extraterrestrial alter ego, Bard The Beholder, their interdisciplinary storytelling explores queerness, fantasy, and colonial legacy through expressive methods such as eco-conscious costuming, interactive live performance, and utilizing horror to explore their lived experience as a fantastical entity. Currently in Taiwan, they are pursuing a master’s degree researching Javanese contract labor in Suriname alongside the politics of identity in Leigh Bowery’s work.
Johan Amatsakio 是一位英國及荷屬蘇利南-爪哇裔（Dutch-Surinamese-Javanese）的作家、表演者、遊戲開發者與變裝藝術家。他們化身為蒙面外星化身「覡星吟士」（Bard The Beholder）進行表演，其跨領域的敘事透過具備環保意識的服裝設計、互動式現場表演，以及利用恐怖美學來探索自身作為幻想生物的生命經驗，進而解構酷兒、奇幻與殖民遺產等議題。他們目前在台灣攻讀碩士學位，其研究範疇橫跨蘇利南的爪哇契約勞工，到雷·鮑威里（Leigh Bowery）作品中的認同政治。
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PYTAGUA
Sara J. Quintana
Country: Paraguay
Language: Spanish, with English subtitles
Year: 2025
Format: Digital, Color
TRT: 7:47 min
Synopsis: PYTAGUA traces foreignness as a state of perpetual becoming. Taking its title from the Guaraní word meaning foreigner, stranger, alien, or non-native, the film moves through visible and invisible borders that define identity. As territories are crossed, both space and self are transformed, revealing identity as continually negotiated between belonging and displacement.
《PYTAGUA》將「異鄉狀態」追溯為一種永無止境的轉化歷程。影片片名取自瓜拉尼語（Guaraní），意為外國人、陌生人、異客或非本地人。影片穿梭於定義認同的形體與隱形邊界之間；隨著地域的跨越，空間與自我皆經歷了轉化，揭示了認同如何在歸屬與流離之間被持續協商與建構。
Filmmaker’s bio: Sara J. Quintana is a transmigrant and a graduate in Image and Sound Design from FADU-UBA, and the creator of the web documentary HALLAR. Their work explores identity, memory, and human rights from both personal and collective perspectives.
Sara J. Quintana 是一位跨國移居者（transmigrant），畢業於阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯大學建築設計與藝術學院（FADU-UBA）影像與聲音設計系，同時也是網路紀錄片計畫《HALLAR》的創作者。他們的作品從個人與集體的雙重雙重視角，探索認同、記憶與人權議題。
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THE MARTIAL FOREST (武林)
J Triangular
Country: Taiwan, Colombia
Language: Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, with English and Mandarin subtitles
Year: 2025
Format: Digital, 4K, Color
TRT: 8 min
Synopsis: In a dystopian present, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters as they reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest, a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. As violence escalates around them, they fight to build a future rooted in chosen family and trans resistance.
在一個反烏托邦的當代社會中，流亡的功夫大師「十三姐」帶領著一群跨性別與酷兒戰士，收復了一片被遺忘的區域，並將其轉化為「武林」——一個將「照顧與關懷」視為與「戰鬥」同等強大的秘密訓練基地。隨著周遭的暴力不斷升級，他們奮力拼搏，試圖建立一個紮根於選擇家庭（chosen family）與跨性別抵抗的未來。
Filmmaker’s bio: J Triangular is a non-binary experimental filmmaker, visual artist, multimedia poet, and social activist from Colombia, creating between Taiwan and Medellín. Their collaborative practice builds queer and trans avant-garde collectives and film cooperatives across Latin America, Asia, and beyond, opening spaces where queer and trans lives become both poetry and resistance. Working through film, performance, and moving image, J’s work melds raw intimacy, queer fantasy, sci-fi, and spiritual autobiography to explore migration, resilience, and the afterlives of systemic erasure.
J Triangular 是一位來自哥倫比亞的非二元性別實驗電影創作者、視覺藝術家、多媒體詩人與社會活動家，穿梭於台灣與麥德林（Medellín）之間進行創作。他們的合作實踐致力於在拉丁美洲、亞洲及其他地區建立酷兒與跨性別的前衛集體與電影合作社，為酷兒與跨性別的生活轉化為詩意與抵抗開闢空間。透過電影、表演與動態影像，J 的作品融合了赤裸的親密感、酷兒幻想、科幻小說與精神自傳，以此探索移居、韌性以及系統性抹除後的生命延續。
