"A clean, graphically pleasing style countered by a deeply felt grief."
- Susanna Locascio, Hammer to Nail
GRAVE GOODS
USA / 2012 / HD video / TRT 11:38 / Mandarin w/English subtitles
SYNOPSIS
What becomes of the personal effects we leave behind after our death?
Grave Goods, the director’s homage to her grandmother and a sensitive reflection on mourning and remembrance, opens with this question.
Through a rigorous ‘mise en scène’, the filmmaker shows objects and images belonging to the departed, while giving free rein to her own recollections.
An intimate cinematographic museum of the fleeting nature of existence.
-A. Bottani, Visions du Réel
SCREENINGS
2013 Visions du Réel
2013 CAAMFest
2013 Pacific Film Archive
2013 Kasseler Dokfest
2014 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA)
AWARDS
George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2013
Regional Finalist, 40th Student Academy Awards
PRESS
Film Festival reViews, April 2013
Hammer to Nail, May 2013
Frontrunner Magazine, August 2013
Programmers’ Picks: Our favorite short films, 14th San Diego Asian Film Festival, November 2013
Asia Pacific Art, Best of 2013: Asian American Films, December 2013
Angry Asian Man, Remembering Taiwanese America, August 2016
POSTER DESIGN BY Doug Behl
