Private Project

Her Location

Death turns a person into floors, numbers, and searchable locations. A family follows these coordinates, repeatedly searching for someone who is gone. Each arrival reveals both distance and absence. Yet death also means a person can no longer be fixed in any place. When everything is reduced to location, the one being searched for has already ceased to reside anywhere.

  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Director
  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Writer
  • MFX Films
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Genres:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese - Min Nan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
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

For many years, I did not know how to film death.

One day, while accompanying my parents to a hillside cemetery, I simply picked up the camera and followed them. Nothing was staged, and no scene was planned in advance. That day, it took us a long time to locate my younger sister’s memorial tablet.

I began to realize that after death, a person is often transformed into a location, a number, a floor, a searchable record. The grief of the living, too, frequently depends on the assistance of strangers in order to reach the dead.

During filming, I became increasingly aware of a strange contradiction: the world continues to function normally — elevators move, offices operate, people come and go — yet only the family understands that something has already disappeared from its original place forever.

This film does not attempt to define death. Instead, I wanted to remain with the moments of waiting, silence, and searching, because I believe our relationship with the dead often exists within stretches of time that language cannot fully explain.