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    Still Life

    LEE Pei-Yu 2015 Taiwan Documentary color 69min Chinese blue-ray
    During a dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car when the driver suddenly turned to look at me and said: Why are you not filming? It was my second elder sister who had already passed away.

    After the death of my sister, I began to keep a diary, take pictures and eventually, when I got a video camera, I began to film the daily life of my family. It was an expression of dread towards death and loss: the idea was to capture everything on film before it disappeared.

    By 2015, my second elder sister had been dead for ten years. It was as if this dream was telling me it was now time to face this fact. Death did not stop the passing of time, and the family members I was filming continued to avoid their grief which hadn’t subsided with time.

    Birth and death continue to alternate in our lives, and we are always getting ready for the day when we must say goodbye.

    Director

    LEE Pei-Yu

    LEE Pei-Yu graduated from the Graduate Institute of Studies in Documentary and Film Archiving of Tainan National University of the Arts. She has been working behind the camera ever since, as an independent filmmaker and full-time editor.

    Director's Statement ▾

    LEE Pei-Yu
    • 2015《有一天都要說再見》Still Life
    • 2011《藝術家卜茲》Buzi
    • 2009《不在》Absent

    Director ／screenplay／Editor：Lee Pei-Yu

    李珮毓LEE Pei-Yu
    puli0602@gmail.com

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