Hung Shih-Ting

Introduction

Director of the production company which produced “Blade runner”, M.A. of School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, grew up in Penghu. Her first short film “VIOLA: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant (2008)” claimed the gold medal of alternative category of the 35th Annual Student Academy Awards, featured on the cover of “Academy Report” magazine and was nominated by more than 200 international film festivals. This film is currently under development for a longer version. She is a member of the Log Angeles female talent-discovery equality platform “Free the Work” and recently joined the global-filmed music video “Paprika” by Yonezu Kenshi which is the cheer song for 2020 Summer Olympics. Previous collaborations include Taiwanese singer Wu Qing-feng, The Royal Ballet principle dancer Sergei Polunin, Oscar winner Colleen Atwood, special effects team “Legacy” from “The Shape of Water”. Brice Dallas Howard, the leading actress from Jurassic World, once commented that Hung Shih-Ting is one of the 20 noteworthy Sci-fi female directors in Hollywood. Website: www.shihtinghung.com IG: @shihtinghung

Resident planning

“A future for the past” (working title) is a movie script about a story of self-motivated oblivion of love. A youthful mind sparkling like magic pops living in an old man’s body; a fantasy tightly connected to Japanese bungalow. It is a true happiness for a movie to write scripts inside the movie set. During this residence, I look forward to the inner peace amidst current pandemic and the study and reconstruction of characters and narrative structure. Aside from being enamored with the history of well-known Peking opera actress from the joy of reading hall in the Taiwan Literature Base, conversation with neuroscience specialist, chitchatting the differences of novel and movie script with other writers, and interaction with readers on the weekends are also among the things I look forward to. In the still of the night, a thinking process of soundtrack for the script is expected. What atmosphere would it be when the Japanese dormitory combined with Japanese and western styles converse with Maurice Duruflé’s requiem? What about Summer night chirping sound in the year and Toru Takemitsu’s requiem? These are what I want to experiment in this residency.