Huei-Yin Chen received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University and she is now pursuing her M.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University School of the Arts. She has involved in several film curatorial projects, such as,  the Cultural Program at Asia Society, the Taiwanese Women Make Waves Film Festival, “A Contemporary Dialogue with Michelangelo,” an exhibition of film installations at Museum of National Taipei University of Education and so on. Besides her interests in film criticism and film curatorial affairs, her love for the moving images also propels her to develop her interests in practical filmmaking process.

 

Holding My Absence 

 

A girl finds herself perpetually caught within flow of moving images that gradually becomes the only reality of hers and takes on the role of defining her existence. The short film attempts to investigate the crossroads of reality and fictional world, memory and dream, ritual and mythology in the form of moving images.