The Economic and Cultural Office of Taipei in Spain and the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan, in collaboration with the 4th edition of the Spain Moving Images Festival (SMIF) and thanks to Hervest Production, present until 10 October the Focus “Zero Chou, On the Limits of Desire”, in which four feature films directed by the Taiwanese director Zero Chou, one of the main representatives of the LGTBIQ Movement in Asian cinema, can be seen online through the festival’s website channel.
Through this retrospective Focus, which places special emphasis on Zero Chou’s filmography, four of her feature-length fiction films will be shown for the first time in Spain, including the award-winning Spider Lilies, winner of the Teddy Award for best LGTBIQ-themed film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007; Drifting Flowers (2005); Ripples of Desire (2012), and her most recent film Wrath of Desire (2020). As part of the complementary activities of the Focus, two theoretical meetings will be available on its website channel: the first will be given to the directors Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez, in which the audiovisual creation of the director Zero Chou will be explored in depth. And the second, with professor David Asenjo Conde, which delves into the importance of genre in her filmography, on the referents of audiovisual creation in the cinema of the director Zero Chou. Spain Moving Images is the festival of Asian audiovisual creation, film and video art in Madrid, dedicated to pioneers, artists and emerging movements from Asia and the only Asian film festival held in Madrid organised by the Association of Asian Film Industry in Spain and Latin America (AFIAS).
