The Trio Hall

Video installation, time-based art, performance, and feature film, Su Hui-Yu, 2023

What you are seeing is a “cinematic exhibition” or “exhibition cinema”, or it can also be thought of as a place of audiovisual production, where members of the audience can experience a process that entails drawing the storyboard, production meeting, audition, rehearsal, martial arts training, choreography, musical arrangement, and even being on site at the filming location. Finally, a political comedy packed with thorny issues and hellish gags will be produced by the end of the exhibition. This entire experience marks an interim conclusion for my “Re-shooting” series, which asks: Why don’t we tackle chauvinism, colonization, the Cold War, popular culture, mass media, and any pressing crises and dilemmas all at once? This proposal reflects the current new Cold War and extreme politics, and under such circumstances, what kind of humorous narratives can this East Asian island nation of ours come up with? The narratives conjured will then be widely circulated and passed down, as we exclaim to the world and also to ourselves: What the hell is going on?

 

Trio Hall, the film, will have its world premiere at the Berlinale International Film Festival, February 13 – 23, 2025
See if you can spot the cameo of Eugenio Viola and me in the film :)  I had both a terrifying and exciting time after being invited by Su to go out of my comfort zone!!! GOOOOOO Su and the entire team, a.o.:
Director: Su Hui-Yu
Producer and Costume Design/Huang Jing-Han
Producer/Cookie Chen
Director of Photography/Chen Kuan-Yu
Production Designer/Liao Yin-Chiao
Assistant Director and Editor/Chen Ki-Yan
Animation/2Enter
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