

“What were you doing last year, when I took this photo from a train passing by your house?”
Direction
Huang's patient, almost invasive gaze
Editing
18 minutes that feel like a lifetime compressed
Production
Found footage reimagined as emotional archaeology

Director
Huang Pang-chuan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Huang shot the original train footage in 1997 as a student, then spent two decades tracking down the accidental subjects through social media and village records.
The film captures Taiwan's rural hollowing-out — young people fled to cities, leaving elders as accidental monuments. That '6.4' rating? Criminal. This won Locarno's Golden Leopard for short film.
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