Neo Cine VR Programme II　(Abnormal Space)

Bodyless
Dir: Huang Hsin-Chien
Taiwan, 2019, Mandarin, VR360, 32mins

Descend into the ghostly realm of an elderly political prisoner, who dies alone during a secret government experiment under Martial Law. As he returns to the world of the living, let us take a journey of this Taiwanese spiritual world interwoven with folk belief and nature.

The Sick Rose
Dir: Tang Zhi-Zhong, Huang Yun-Hsien
Taiwan, 2021, Mandarin / English, VR360, 17mins

In a Taiwanese city crafted with dough-figurine and VR technology, a little girl must venture through viruses and nonchalance to send a magical rose to her mother who is saving lives at the hospital during pandemic. She never loses hope, despite her path is arduous. In Mandarin or English.

Container
Dir: Meghna Singh, Simon Wood
South Africa, 2021, VR180, 17mins

Recalling the memory of the 211 refugees who drowned in shackles onboard a slave ship in 1794, it confronts slavery through an ever-transforming shipping container, presenting different tableaus of the enslaved suffering as the past becomes the present.