Private Project

Remembered by This Day

A collection of long-unseen family VHS tapes is played again, revealing fragments of a child’s growth and everyday family life.

Through re-viewing, these images begin to shift in meaning as time and memory become unstable.

As time and space shift, ordinary moments slowly reveal traces of absence and disappearance.

  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Director
  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Writer
  • MFX Films
    Producer
  • LI KAI LIN
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Genres:
    Experimental Documentary
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 23, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese, Chinese - Min Nan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • SCINEMA International Science Film Festival
    Deakin
    Australia
    Official Selection
Director Biography - CHIH HAO SHEN

Chih Hao Shen is an animation and documentary filmmaker whose work explores human existence, memory, and time through restrained visual storytelling.

His debut work received recognition from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. His short film 10 Seconds was selected by the 2026 In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Fantasporto, and Asolo Art Film Festival. His documentary YinYang Sea won the Grand Prix at the 2026 Asolo Art Film Festival.

His projects have been presented in international industry contexts, including Clermont-Ferrand, Visions du Réel, Cannes Short Film Corner, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and Oberhausen.

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Director Statement

A collection of long-forgotten family VHS tapes is played again.

Inside them are fragments of a childhood: family trips, hotel rooms, car windows, birthdays, and faces smiling toward the camera.

What were once simple domestic recordings gradually reveal a different sense of time.
Some of the people in the images are no longer alive, and some places have disappeared or changed beyond recognition.

The child in the footage is not the center of the narrative, but part of a time that once passed through everything.
As the tapes are revisited, ordinary life slowly turns into memory, and memory becomes image once again.

This is not a reconstruction of the past, but a way of looking at time again.
Within the images, the past continues to exist.