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    Somewhere Over the Clouds

    Hsiao Mei Ling 2007 Taiwan Documentary color 102min Chinese, Taiwanese, Beta
    A letter the filmmaker wrote to her late teacher and guide, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is woven throughout the plot of the story, as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are reexamined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter.

    Elodie is a girl of mixed French and Taiwanese descendant, conceived in Indonesia and born in Taiwan. At her birth, her French father applied for unpaid leave and arrived in Taiwan to stay for one year. After returning to France, the Internet web cam becomes the means by which they know one another; a real father confined behind a small, virtual screen. The meaning of “Daddy” changes along with Elodie, from being the computer, to the mouthpiece, to the teddy bear, to the intruder who competes with her for her mother's affection. 　

    Director

    Hsiao Mei Ling

    HSIAO Mei-ling was born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1964. In 1989 she graduated from the Fine Arts Department at the National Taipei University of the Arts. She was admitted to Le Fresnoy National Studio of the Contemporary Arts in 1998, where she worked under the supervision of Robert Kramer. She currently teaches in the Department of the Arts at the National Taipei University of Education.

    Hsiao Mei Ling
    1. 2007 雲的那端 Somewhere Over the Clouds
    1. 2005 幻象山水 Paysage Illusion
    1. 2003 源 L'origine
    2. 1999 斷線風箏 The Falling Kite
    3. 1998 這那，之間 Etant la

    製片：蕭美玲

    導演：蕭美玲

    攝影：蕭美玲

    剪接：蕭美玲

    音樂：黃海鳴

    演員：蕭向昀，蕭劉綢，蕭明唐，蕭素雲

    HSIAO Mei Ling
    ​tghsiao@hotmail.com  

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