Taiwanese director Midi Z's films screening at Museum of the Moving Image
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The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York is pleased to announce the virtual movie series “Online Retrospective–Six Films by Midi Z,” a new collaboration between Taipei Cultural Center in New York and the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI).
Available online from March 26 through April 11, this program shows six of Taiwanese director Midi Z’s most acclaimed films from the past decade, including the US debut of his new feature Nina Wu (2019), a Cannes Un Certain Regard selection. The other five are 14 Apples (2018), The Road to Mandalay (2016), City of Jade (2016), Ice Poison (2014), and Return to Burma (2011).
Directed by Midi Z and written by Wu Ke-xi, Nina Wu is a psychological thriller that portrays exploitation in the film industry. As described by The New York Times's Critic's Pick, “Nina is never merely a symbol for the oppression of women, though she is a victim. In her red dress—the one she wears to her final, fateful audition—she’s just another actress, a number, a body. Yet she emerges as fully herself, scars and all, daring you to look away.”