Stories had been told repeatedly, their shapes changed by the narrators. Memories revisited each time in different forms like the waves beat on the shore, then vanish. THIS SHORE is an experimental documentary that opens with a family anecdote: When coming across my grandmother’s painting in a random Chinese restaurant in the States, my aunt burst into tears. The film wanders through Cold War constructions, Taiwan–United States relations, generations of diaspora, family romances, and ghost stories. While the personal and collective memories are transformed into another tale of “the Flying Dutchman”, doomed to sail the oceans forevermore.

故事總被重複訴說，它們的形狀隨著敘事者不斷變形。記憶的造訪亦如是，如同浪花襲岸，以不同形狀前來，而後破滅。本片以個人的家族故事開始：我的美國姑姑偶然地在美國某地的某中國餐廳遇見了奶奶的畫作，她說她立刻哭了。假藉追溯故事，本片在不同的主題間晃蕩：冷戰、不同世代的離散與流動、家族羅曼史、鬼故事……當不同敘事線逐漸交疊，所謂真實的歷史，個人或集體的記憶被重組為一場關於「飛行荷蘭人」的虛構幻想。

Tzu-An Wu works between experimental film and its expansions. He makes collages with analogue films, through mixing heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of (cinematic) narratives and the selves.

He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan). Exhibitions include Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. He also does programming of experimental cinema.