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A Simple Silence

Craig QUINTERO|Taiwan|2024|13min |3DoF 360¨¬ VR |English

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Synopsis

It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found.

Director

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Craig QUINTERO

Craig Quintero(1970, USA) is the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company. He has staged fifty performances and exhibited projects at the Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai Shanghai.
His VR experience, All That Remains, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and won Best Immersive Experience at the Luxembourg City Film Festival and Best 360 VR Experience at the Kaohsiung Film Festival. His second VR experience, Over the Rainbow, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival and was selected for the 'Best of' section for the Venice International Film Festival in 2023. The project won the Panorama Prize at the Festival du nouveau cinéma. Craig is a professor in the Department of Theatre at Grinnell College.

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Producer
Su-Ling YEH
Cinematographer
VR Cinematography: William CHOU, Ming-Yuan CHUAN
Editor
VR Editor: Ping-Ying YEN
Cast
Yu-Hsin YU, Ollie HUANG, Fang-Fang LIN, Yu-Shan TSAI, Yen-Yi LIANG, Wei-Cih LI, Ping-Fei HU
Sound & Music
Sound: Chin-Lun KAO, Ping-Ying YEN
Music: Yu-Jun WANG
Other
Scenic Design & Text: Craig QUINTERO
Scenic Artist: Chang-Chih CHEN, Shiou-Ling SHENG
Gaffer: Wen-Tse CHEN
Costume Design: Ya-Chi CHEN
Production: VR FUNIQUE
VR Project Manager: Liana Monique YAO
VR Script Supervisor: Ming-Yang YEH
VR Post-Production Crew: Ming-Yang YEH, Ming-Yuan CHUAN, Sven HUANG, Nien-Chu CHOU
Still Photographer: Cheng-Hsiang LIU
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