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.
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CHANG Po-YangDirector
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CHANG Po-YangWriter
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CHANG Po-YangProducer
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Hsi-An WANGDirector of Photographer
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CHANG Po-YangDirector of Photographer
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Hsi-An WANGCamera Operator
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Po-Yang CHANGCostume Designer
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Yueh-Ming LIUEditor
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CHANG Po-YangGaffer
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Wan-Chung LINMake-up
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Shiou-Ming WUMusic Editor
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Shiou-Ming WUMixer
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NaomiStill photography
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Hsi-An WANGStill photography
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Yi-Tsen LINFirst Associate Director
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NaomiAssociate Director
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Po-Yang CHANGArt Director
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Yi-Tsen LINAssociate Producer
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Hai-Wei SHAOStarring
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Yi-Shuan LEEStarring
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Wan-Chung LINStarring
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Chia-Hui TAIStarring
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Wei-Shan LINStarring
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Project Title (Original Language):Je est un autre
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Project Type:Short, Other
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Genres:Experimental, Art, Video art
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Runtime:14 minutes 31 seconds
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Completion Date:December 30, 2013
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Production Budget:3,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Taiwan
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Country of Filming:Taiwan
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Language:Chinese
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Shooting Format:DSLR Camera
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Exhibition:Dream-Reality : MocaVideo Spring Special.Taiwan, Taipei / Museum of Contemporary Art.
March 16, 2014
Asia Premiere
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11th Beijing Independent Film FestivalBeijing,China
August 23, 2014
Asia Premiere
official selection -
8th Farinha Film FestivalPatos-PB,Brazil
October 15, 2014
North American Premiere
official selection
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.
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.