Private Project

I as the other

In an apartment live six men, the Sleeper is the initial who created all the other five duplicates. When the Sleeper dreams of one of them, the others will be forced to vanish. Who is the Sleeper and who are the others? The others who are forced to vanish started running away from the dreams to keep their own existence and intend to become the real one’s self.

  • CHANG Po-Yang
    Director
  • CHANG Po-Yang
    Writer
  • CHANG Po-Yang
    Producer
  • Hsi-An WANG
    Director of Photographer
  • CHANG Po-Yang
    Director of Photographer
  • Hsi-An WANG
    Camera Operator
  • Po-Yang CHANG
    Costume Designer
  • Yueh-Ming LIU
    Editor
  • CHANG Po-Yang
    Gaffer
  • Wan-Chung LIN
    Make-up
  • Shiou-Ming WU
    Music Editor
  • Shiou-Ming WU
    Mixer
  • Naomi
    Still photography
  • Hsi-An WANG
    Still photography
  • Yi-Tsen LIN
    First Associate Director
  • Naomi
    Associate Director
  • Po-Yang CHANG
    Art Director
  • Yi-Tsen LIN
    Associate Producer
  • Hai-Wei SHAO
    Starring
  • Yi-Shuan LEE
    Starring
  • Wan-Chung LIN
    Starring
  • Chia-Hui TAI
    Starring
  • Wei-Shan LIN
    Starring
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Je est un autre
  • Project Type:
    Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Art, Video art
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 30, 2013
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR Camera
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Exhibition:Dream-Reality : MocaVideo Spring Special.
    Taiwan, Taipei / Museum of Contemporary Art.
    March 16, 2014
    Asia Premiere
    no competition
  • 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival
    Beijing,China
    August 23, 2014
    Asia Premiere
    official selection
  • 8th Farinha Film Festival
    Patos-PB,Brazil
    October 15, 2014
    North American Premiere
    official selection
Director Biography - CHANG Po-Yang

Chang Po Yang Self-employed, his artistic enlightenment originated from a child literary work about the human system of digestion. During his process of reaching adulthood, he experienced the obsession with aesthetics of violence and pathological articles, and slowly transmute to abstract and experimental art.

During his technical high school stage, he pondered whether there was one medium that could embrace everything he liked. He finally found an exit in film and video creation and began to drift among painting, short films, and photography. Presently, he is planning to shoot “ FU ELSA” and “A Lost Poem about Society 2”, and also a series of self-portraits in painting.

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Director Statement

If a space refers to a form of physical boundary, the person inside the space is regarded the other person by all the others outside the space. When we say I, it refers to one’s self. No one would call one’s self he or she. “I as the Other” attempts to replace the pronoun I from being the first person. Only being the other, it can refer to anyone (with life, lifeless, or the divine one). Under this circumstance, a person’s name or title is only a mark for its referent. On the other word, I is not the real thing in one’s self. I is only a mark to indicate the referent in the real world. The real thing in one’s self has nothing to do with the form of the pronouns other people see. To the person’s real self, what people see in the real world is only like a pronoun of the other person.
It is a goal for all the others (as pronouns for the living individuals) to strive for affirmation and percipience toward the existence of one’s self (in any forms of space on earth). Through the physical collision and the mumbling words, they intend to make distinctions or to prove that the other can be I. “I as the Other” tries to recall the real I in one’s self living in a specific space as the other. This film intends to experiment and explore the way to turn I, who live somewhere as the other, into the real existence of one’s self.