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World Premiere White Ant

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Social Criticism · Coming of Age · Eroticism · Human Rights

  • CountryTaiwan
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time95min
  • FormatDCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young man living alone. He works at a bookstore and derives sexual pleasure by stealing and wearing women’s underwear. One day, he receives a DVD in which his activities have been recorded and he becomes anxious. The DVD was sent by Junhong, who happened to know about Bai’s psychological trauma steming from working at Bai’s mother’s wedding dress shop. The director shows deep interest in Bai’s anxiety and the emotional change in Junhong. Junhong sends the DVD as a message of warning but, ironically, it works as a way to harass the weak at the same time. This implies the dual face of power. We are all subject to power relations in our daily lives. White Ant, therefore, has both nature of a psychological drama and a social drama.
Director
Director
CHU Hsien-Che
Documentarian Chu Hsien-Che is originally from Taiwan and has been producing short docs for over 20 years. His filmography includes West Island (2000), Pick of the Litter-Stray Dogs in Taiwan (2001) and An Exposure of Affected Hospital (2007). White Ant is his feature debut.
Credit
  • Director
    CHU Hsien-Che
  • ProducerMeng-Hsiu LAI
    Chun-Ting KAO
    Mark CHEN
  • CastKang-Jen WU
    Aviis ZHONG
    Tai-Yan YU
  • ScreenplayHsien-Che CHU
  • CinematographyHeng LEI
  • Production DesignI-Feng CHANG
  • EditorHsiao-Dong CHEN
  • SoundDennis TSAO
    Chia-Wei CHEN
  • MusicChia-Feng WU
  • Production CompanyBig Houses Film Production
    Content Digital Film Co.
    Ltd
    chu996@ms23.net.net
    hoijcafe@gmail.com
  • World SalesAblaze Image Ltd.
    info@ablazeimage.com
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