On The Road

Film Festival

Preface 02
Ticketing Information 04
Special Events 05
Venue Information 05
Screening Schedule 06
Film Information 08
Special Thanks 54

2001

E.T

Jack

Kerouac

Ticketing Information

Special Events

9.7 ~ 10.8

240 200

1080 / 6

9.12 14:00

9.19 14:00

" 9ml " " "

9.26 14:00
Verena Kyselka

NT$680

Venue Information

1. 9.7

Sec. 2, Zhongshan N. Rd.

Sec. 2, Chengde Rd.

Nanjing W. Rd

2. 10
3. 20
4.

SPOT - Taipei
02-2511-7786 http://www.spot.org.tw
18 No.18, Sec. 2, Zhongshan N. Rd., Taipei

Nanjing E. Rd

Non-English Language Film without English Subtitle

Screening Schedule

Please refer to the announcement on website and venues for changes of screening or events.

Date

Time

Titles

Length

Page

Note

Date

Time

Titles

Length

Page

Note

75

44

9.18

9.19

9.21

9.22

The State of Things

121

50

17:40

75

44

21:10

Searching For Brodsky

82

26

48

15:10

Into the Abyss

105

32

26

17:20

A Trick of the Light

80

52

21:10

August Winds

75

22

15:10

81

39

17:00

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

96

48

17:00

Easy Rider

95

16

19:00

Time of the Gypsies

142

12

10:30

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

96

12:30

Searching For Brodsky

82

21:00

Kichiku

100

34

15:30

9.20

15:10

15:20

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam + Wind in Our Hair

August Winds

75

9.28

9.29

22

9.30

The Council of Birds

81

24

19:00

Cruel

108

36

21:10

Easy Rider

95

16

15:30

Big Sur

81

10

15:10

Big Sur

81

10

17:30

Suicide

70

42

17:10

Suicide

70

42

21:20

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

78

14

21:10

Nearby Sky

85

20

15:30

81

39

15:30

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

78

14

17:20

Easy Rider

95

16

Looking for Siraya + Territory of Beauties + The Formosa Experiment

17:20

A Trick of the Light

80

52

19:10

Into the Abyss

105

32

10.1

10.2

The Council of Birds

81

24

10.3

17:20

75

44

21:20

Cruel

108

36

15:30

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

78

14

17:20

August Winds

75

19:10

Oedipus Rex

9.25

17:20

9.24

9.26

9.27

Looking for Siraya + Territory of Beauties + The Formosa Experiment

17:10

15:30

9.23

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam + Wind in Our Hair

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam + Wind in Our Hair

21:40

Kichiku

100

34

15:00

Time of the Gypsies

142

12

17:50

Into the Abyss

105

32

20:00

The Council of Birds

81

24

15:00

Oedipus Rex

104

30

17:10

The State of Things

121

50

22

21:40

Cruel

108

36

104

30

15:30

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

96

48

Cruel

108

36

17:30

The Council of Birds

81

24

21:40

Suicide

70

42

19:20

Big Sur

81

10

10:30

Big Sur

81

10

15:30

Oedipus Rex

104

30

12:25

17:40

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

78

14

21:40

Kichiku

100

34

15:30

Nearby Sky

85

20

17:20

The State of Things

121

50

Looking for Siraya + Territory of Beauties + The Formosa Experiment

81

A Trick of the Light

80

52

22:10

75

44

10.4

10.5

10.6

39

16:20

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam + Wind in Our Hair

10.7

13:10

Easy Rider

95

16

19:45

Into the Abyss

105

32

17:20

Nearby Sky

85

20

10.8

15:00

Time of the Gypsies

142

12

14

17:50

August Winds

75

22

19:10

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

78

Departure

Big Sur

10

Big Sur

Michael Polish's film is at once a poetic meditation

Big Sur

and a love-letter to the work of an author who

defined the Beat Generation.

MAN

Michael Polish

USA 2013 DCP Color 81min

PG

in the small, coastal California town of Big Sur.

2013

2012 On the

10.5 19:20

9.26 10:30

10.1 15:10

1999

King of the Beats

An adaptation of American literary icon Jack

Kerouac's novel of the same name, BIG SUR

focuses on a moment in Kerouac's life when,

overwhelmed by the success of his opus On the

Road and struggling to battle inner demons, he

seeks respite in three brief sojourns to a cabin

Road

9.21 15:30

Twin Falls Idaho

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12

Time of the Gypsies

Emir Kusturica

UK/Italy/Yugoslavia 1988 35mm Color 142min

1989

10.8 15:00

1954
FAMU

powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of

petty crime which threatens to destroy him and

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those he loves.

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

When Father Was Away on

Business
Dusan

Makavejev

10.3 15:00

Perhan, an engaging young Gypsy with telekinetic

9.18 19:00

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia,

140

Hieronymus

Underground

Bosch

13

14

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Sleepy

in Mexico and some of the survivors go north and

Sleepers

meet a new manager who claims to be Moses and

leads them to the promised land Siberia.

Aki Kaurismaki

Finland/Sweden 1989 DCP Color 78min

G

9.21 21:20

9.24 15:30

10.2 15:30

10.6 17:40

9.27 19:10

1957

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish

musicians, and their manager, travel to America

seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the

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country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they

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are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join

the band. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

The band is reduced in number by a snake-tequila

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16

Easy Rider

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divided the original film into scenes (like I did with

FACES) and then replaced each scene with one

shot filmed at the original location (unlike FACES

James Benning

2012

USA 2012 HD Color 95min

2012

2013

1969

10.2 17:20

9.27 13:10

9.30 21:10

culture (if one exists) by replacing the 60's music

with music that I listen to today. (James Benning)

After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes' FACES

1942
1975
1980

(1968), I decided to re-make another American

classic, Dennis Hopper's EASY RIDER (1969). EASY

RIDER interests me in two ways: its portrayal of

9.18 17:00

where shots were gleaned from the original film

itself.) My EASY RIDER tries to find today's counter-

60's counterculture unlike FACES which for me

is more about the 50's and its search for place. I

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Search

August Winds

20

Nearby Sky

Nujoom Al-Ghanem

UAE 2014 DCP Color 85min

G

Just when Fatima begins to lose hope, an

unexpected reward comes her way.

Fatima Alhameli is the first Emirati female camel

owner to physically take part in the Camel Beauty

Pageant Competitions as well to enter the camels'

auctions in the UAE.

Regardless of all the difficulties and challenges she

encountered while trying to prove herself in one of

the most male dominant domains, her wish to win

in a race or a beauty pageant contest remains the

9.27 17:20

10.1 21:10

10.7 15:30

only compensation to overcome her failures.

1962

1989

21

22

August Winds

the growing winds mark the following days of the

Gabriel Mascaro

village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and

Brazil 2014 DCP Color 77min

R

re g i s t e r i n g t h e s o u n d o f t h e t ra d e w i n d s

emanating from the Intertropical Convergence

Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and

Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the

duel between life and death, loss and memory, the

wind and the sea.

2014

9.20 15:30
10.8 17:50

9.24 17:20

9.29 21:10

Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside

town and look after her elderly grandmother. She
drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves

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rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels

trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved

2008

with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm

KFZ-1348

and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his

spare time. During the month of August, when

tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher

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24

The Council of Birds

1929

Timm Krger

Germany 2014 DCP Color 81min

2014
2015 /

9.20 17:10
10.5 17:30

9.23 15:30

10.3 20:00

In 1929, music teacher Paul Leinert receives

an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto
Schiffmann, a young and talented composer
who has moved away from Berlin after a failed
marriage. The letter is an invitation for Paul to
come and visit Otto in his forest cabin - and to get
to know his new work, a long-awaited symphony.
Taking along his wife Anna as well as his colleague

1985

Willi, the three find his cabin, but Otto is nowhere

to be seen. As they go looking for him the next

day, Paul notices something odd about the song

of the local birds...

ARRI

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26

Searching For Brodsky

1994

( )

Benjamin Brodsky

journey of such quest on visual images include

1910

Hong Kong, Japan, China and the USA. Through

A Trip Through

HSIEH Chia-Kuen

China

Taiwan 2012 Blu-ray Color 82min

9.19 12:30

9.28 21:10

Benjamin Brodsky, the legendary "Chinese

Film King" was brought to the attention of the

Taiwanese in 1994, when a descendent of the

Brodsky introduced A TRIP THROUGH CHINA, a

documentary film made by Brodsky around 1913,

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to the Taiwanese cinema academia. However

legendary this Chinese Film King is, his work,

1989

life and contribution to Chinese film history was

1909 1912

scarcely documented.

A Trip Through China

Professor Gene-Fon Liao started his quest of

SEARCHING FOR BRODSKY from year 2001, in

order to note down the footmarks of early Chinese

film history. On the encounter of Professor Liao's

work, this film therefore inspired to record his

this documentary, we try to trace how Professor

Liao revealed this hidden history and what the
influence of Brodsky's films is.

Bonnie & Denny

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Gaze

Cruel

30

Oedipus Rex

will follow its course! Several years later, Tiresia, a

fortuneteller, will demonstrate the tragic reality...

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy/Morocco 1967 35mm Color 104min

Mad with remorse and eager for self-punishment,

a goddess cannot be escaped by men... Destiny

Oedipus pulls his eyes out of the sockets!

1968
1968

1967

429

9.24 19:10

10.4 15:00

10.6 15:30

Ancient Greece - An oracle announces a sad

omen: Laio and Giocasta's son Oedipus will grow

up to kill his father and marry his mother! Thanks

to a servant's pity, the child is spared and adopted

120

by a shepard. Nobody realizes that the omen of

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Into the Abyss

days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what

he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human

soul." Herzog's inquiries also extend to the families

2010

of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state

Werner Herzog

executioner and pastor who've been with death row

Germany 2011 DCP Color 105min

prisoners as they've taken their final breaths. As he's

so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils

10.7 19:45

layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out

of ominous territory.

2011

9.29 15:10

2011

9.22 19:10

10.3 17:50

1942

In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case

in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog

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probes the human psyche to explore why people

kill-and why a state kills. In intimate conversations

with those involved, including 28-year-old death row

inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Fitzcarraldo

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34

Kichiku

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Japan 1997 Color 16mm 100min

R

9.19 21:00

10.2 21:40

10.6 21:40

A leftist political group in 1970's Japan is left

1974

without a leadership after their leader Aikawa is

1997

imprisioned. Aikawa's girlfriend Masami is left

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in charge of the group, whose activities include

drinking, drug use, sex, and of course the murder

of traitors to the group.

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36

Cruel

Eric Cherriere

France 2014 DCP Color 108min

R

1974
ESAV

9.20 19:00
10.4 21:40

9.23 21:20

9.25 17:20

In a large French city, these days... Pierre Tardieu

is a temporary worker. He lives in an old house

with his ill father. No one is aware of his existence.

Pierre falls in love. Pierre is a serial killer.

2012

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Looking for Siraya

9.22 15:30

9.30 15:10

9.26 12:25

CHENG Li-ming

Taiwan 2013 HD Color 30min P

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Recollect

1871

In 1871, John Thompson, the Scottish

photographer came to Formosa, and shot a

series of images, which became the first, widely

3D

published set of photos of Formosa in the West.

One of the most famous portraits displays a

mysterious, aboriginal mother holding a baby in
Muzha. This photo was shot with a 3D camera,
its door-like double images lead the crew to the
pursuit of the history about our motherland and
ancestors.

Wind in Our Hair

(2006)
2006
(2008) (2010)2013

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Territory of Beauties

The Formosa Experiment

9.22 15:30

9.26 12:25

9.30 15:10

Verena Kyselka

Verena Kyselka

Germany/Taiwan 2012 Color HD 23min P

Germany/Taiwan 2014 B&W/Color HD 29min P

2011

9.22 15:30

9.26 12:25

9.30 15:10

In 2011, the artist conducted interviews with female

Taiwanese artists. The questions were focused on

memories of the past, experiences of tradition, and

the development of their personalities and artistic

careers. The resulting work has been developed

as visual poetry in cultural reflection of Taiwanese

womanhood and contemporary female roles in a

still very traditional society. It also deals with the

similarities and differences concerning the life

concepts, perspectives, and yearnings of women

in an intercultural comparison.

1963
1998 2003

The situation on an island in the South Pacific

Ocean is getting worse. A secret experiment to
shift the island is carried out. Suddenly, the island
disappears together with its people. Three new

populated islands are appearing scattered around

the globe. What are the consequences?

vs. vs.
vs.

1990 1999

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Suicide

autobiographical. It is a wild ride, as the heroine

slips ever further into the shadow areas between

the real and the imagined...

Shelly Silver

USA/Japan 2003 HD Color 70min

P

9.21 17:30

9.25 21:40

10.1 17:10

an audacious act of flirting with the revelatory

1957 1980

SUICIDE follows a fictional filmmaker's trajectory

crazed ruminations on travel, family history, death

and sex as she traverses a world of malls, airports

and train stations, chronicling her fiercely hopeful

2009

search for a reason to continue living.

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Shot to resemble a personal diary film, and

starring the director herself as the imaginary

filmmaker heroine, suicide is edgy, dark and funny;

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Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

Wind in Our Hair

9.18 15:20

9.23 17:20

9.26 22:10

9.28 17:40

Lynne Sachs

Lynne Sachs

USA 1994 HD Color 33min G

USA/Argentina 2009 HD Color 42min G

9.18 15:20

9.26 22:10

9.23 17:20
9.28 17:40

When two American sisters travel north from

Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with

Wind in Our Hair is circumscribed by a period of

Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them

profound Argentine political and social unrest.

the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana

Shot with 16mm, Super 8mm, Regular 8mm film

Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a

and video, the film follows the girls to the train

collection of tourism, city life, culture clash, and

tracks, into kitchens, on sidewalks, in costume

historic inquiry that's put together with the warmth

stores, and into backyards in the heart of Buenos

of a quilt. WHICH WAY IS EAST starts as a road trip

and flowers into a political discourse. It combines
Vietnamese parables, history and memories of
the people the sisters met, as well as their own
childhood memories of the war on TV. (excerpted
from article in The Independent by Susan Gerhard)

1961 1985

A story of early-teen anticipation and disappointment,

Aires as well as the outskirts of town. Sachs and her

Argentine collaborators move about Buenos Aires

with their cameras, witnessing the four playful girls
as they wander a city embroiled in a debate about
the role of agribusiness, food resources and taxes.

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The Movie Journey of

Wim Wenders

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

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One Who Set Forth:

Wim Wenders' Early Years

1974

featuring examinations of ALICE IN THE CITIES AND

KINGS OF THE ROAD in addition to interviews with the

Marecl Wehn

Germany 2007 B&C/Color DigiBeta 96min

G

2007

friends, family, and collaborators of the famed auteur.

From his film school work to his earliest attempts at

flying solo as a filmmaker, Wenders' personal and

artistic growth is profiled as he speaks openly of his

relationship to his parents, his artistic vision, and his

conflicted feelings for the fairer sex. An additional

conversation with frequent Wenders collaborator Robby

Mueller sheds illuminating light on the rift between

skilled cinematographer and the passionate director.

Burgeoning filmmaker Marcel Wehn crafts a detailed

examination of internationally acclaimed director Wim

9.30 17:00

10.5 15:30

Wenders' creative peak with an intimate documentary

9.19 10:30

1977
-

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The State of Things

Wim Wenders

Germany 1982 B&W DigiBeta 121 min

P

the mafiosi or loan sharks who are after him. The

two have to pay with their lives for their black-

and-white film adventure the following morning.

Friedrich continues to "put up a fight" by "shooting

back" with his Super 8 camera until the moment of

his death.

1982

1982

10.4 17:10

10.7 17:20

about a film crew stranded at the most western tip

of Europe. Director Friedrich Munroe, cameraman,

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scriptwriter and actors have been abandoned by

their producer. After shooting their last feet of

film, there is nothing left to do but wait. Friedrich

finally sets out for Los Angeles to search for the

9.28 15:10

THE STATE OF THINGS is a highly personal film

about filmmaking in Europe and America. It is

missing producer. He finally finds him on Sunset

2015

Boulevard, in his RV, where he is hiding out from

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A Trick of the Light

Wim Wenders

Germany 1995 B&W/Color DigiBeta 80min

G

graduates of the University of Television and Film

Munich. It shows the beginnings of cinema in

Berlin where the brothers Skladanowsky built a

Bioskop 16

projector, the bioscope, at the same time as the

1895 1905

Lumire brothers in France and Edison in America.

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Together they invented "moving images" in their

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very own, poetic, lovable and rather un-german

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way. The film begins a hundred years ago and

ends in the year 1996, with Max Skladanowsky's

daughter Lucie who still remembers her father and
the early days of cinema very well. The film was
mainly shot on an old hand-crank camera from the
1920s. A silent movie in original slapstick style.

9.22 17:20

9.26 16:20

9.29 17:20

Wim Wenders made this film together with

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