The work connects Taiwan’s first lost film from 1907 with today’s film industry struggles, exploring how history is remembered and forgotten. Through exploring this long history, the work shows a constant but hard-to-reach yearning for progress and understanding. In his films, Yao-Yi Wang blends real and imagined stories to show how people keep longing for progress, even when life feels stuck or incomplete.
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Millennium Actress
2002

Sight
2024

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2010

Roundhay Garden Scene
1888

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009

The Chaplin Revue
1959

The Director and the Jedi
2018

Einstein and the Bomb
2024

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004

Side by Side
2012