Where the World Meets on This Island
Island In Between
Grandma and Her Ghosts (Digital Restoration)
Girl
Moment of Choice
Heavy Craving
Those Who Dance
One Summer's Day
The Hostess
Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu
When does a woman first become aware of her own body? Is it the moment she feels the first gaze upon her, or the moment the first wound splits open? The body is a battlefield where power, desire and trauma intertwine. Spanning animation, documentary and narrative features, Fissures of the Body looks at how the female body becomes a vessel for violence and discipline — and how, from within those fissures, it tries to speak, to write and to remake itself. Together, these works reveal that wounds are never merely physical; they are symbolic and psychic as well. From everyday scars to the social gaze, from trauma inherited across generations to the dismemberment performed by the cosmetic-surgery industry, the female body is continually cut, filled and consumed — and yet, in that same process, it shows the resilience of the survivor and a faint, stubborn resistance.
