Trashy Treasure

简体中文Taiwan2010 / 18min / HDV
Director:Hogan Lee


“Trash” could be so relative that most people have stereotyped definitions about rubbish.For some people, trash could be somehow treasurable. As an production designer for short films, I started to observe trash in the cities and collected them as my own properties for those low-budge films. A few years after,I realized I am emotionally close to all these trash that I have been taking care of. 2009 April, we decided to take a family portrait with all the trash to commemorate the treasurable love we shared with each other.

 

 

Director Hogan Lee

 

Hogan Lee was born in Taipei, 1984. Graduated from Fu Jen University Communication Arts department, and now he’s still a MFA student of Motion Picture department of National Taiwan University of Arts. Also, he has a few years of work experiences in production designing for short films and assistant production designing experiences for TV commercials and feature films.

 

 

From the Director

 

Life in cities pushes people to have all kinds of goals. Goals that people are desperately fighting for. But some signs in the corner of this city show us how the civilization works with human beings, such as, trash. Rather than drown by the trash we make, why not treasure them like we treasure those new products we just purchased?

 

 

Film Festival

 

Golden Lion International Student Film Competition

Hong Kong Asian Film festival, New Generation, 2010

GZ DOC Public Screening, 2010

※The 9th Green Film Festival in Seoul, 2012

The 4th Festival de film Écrans De Chine, 2014