Hello to Me in 100 Years
What was Taiwan like 100 years ago? What will it be like 100 years from now? Maybe there will be flying cars, and many things can be done by machines. Maybe we will live under the sea or on Mars. Will advanced technology make us happier? What would I say to me in 100 years?
"Hello to Me in 100 Years" incorporates historical audio-visual materials, children’s interviews, and paintings to build a fantasy world of past, present, and future. The conversation might sound innocent and whimsical, yet it reminds us that humanity always surpasses technology. The warm company of friends and family is what we truly long for.
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Wu-Ching ChangDirector
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Wu-Ching ChangWriter
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Wuan-Ling GuoProducer
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Yi-Hsin LiaoProducer
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Wu-Ching ChangProducer
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Tse-Fen HuProduction Coordinator
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Wu-Ching ChangAnimators
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Shi-Yun QiuAnimators
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Te-Chin ChenAnimators
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Jack LienAnimators
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You-Zhen WuAnimators
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Ding DoAnimators
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Yun-Jung ChiangRotoscoping Artist
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Chuan-Chi LinSound Designer
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Chuan-Chi LinSound Mixer
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Jen-Shuo ChenComposer
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Public Television Service TaiwanDistributor
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Project Title (Original Language):一百年後的我,你好嗎?
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Project Type:Animation, Documentary, Short
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Runtime:9 minutes 32 seconds
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Completion Date:March 3, 2022
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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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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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2022 Chaniartoon - Chania Cartoon & Animation FestivalChania
Greece
September 5, 2022
International Premiere
Official Selection -
2022 DYTIATKO International Children’s Television FestivalKharkivska
Ukraine
September 7, 2022
Ukrainian Premiere
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2022 BFI London Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
October 5, 2022
UK Premiere
Official Selection -
2022 Cinemagic Belfast International Film Festival for Young PeopleBelfast, Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
October 8, 2022
Northern Ireland Premiere
Official Selection -
2022 San Diego International Kids' Film FestivalCalifornia
United States
October 28, 2022
North American Premiere
Official Selection -
2022 Escales DocumentairesLa Rochelle
France
November 9, 2022
French Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Spokane International Film FestivalWashington
United States
February 3, 2023
Washington Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Athens ANIMFESTAthens
Greece
March 16, 2023
Athens Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Cleveland International Film FestivalCleveland, Ohio
United States
March 22, 2023
Ohio Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Los Angeles International Children's Film FestivalCalifornia
United States
March 24, 2023
Los Angeles Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Riverside International Film FestivalCalifornia
United States
April 23, 2023
Official Selection -
2023 NCCC Film & Animation FestivalNew York
United States
May 6, 2023
New York Premiere
Official Selection -
2023 Golden Harvest AwardTaipei
Taiwan
May 7, 2023
Official Selection -
2023 INPUTTaipei
Taiwan
May 18, 2023
Official Selection
Born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang is an animation director who earned MA. Animation at the Royal College of Art in the UK and BFA in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She is the founder of Aco Creative Ltd. She has worked on commercial and independent animation, illustration, and game concept art since 2014. Most prestigious clients include Channel Four, Tiger Party New York, Velvet Wolf Films, Taiwan Public Television, etc. She worked as the concept artist and cinematic artist for the game Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition.
Her films approach multiple issues of females, modernity, and humanistic views. Her films are often based on cultural context through focused interviews. Except for 2D animation with hand-painted texture, her films contain multiple experimental practices, such as animating with eggs. Through visual art, she tells stories about life.
Her animated short films were screened at festivals around the world. Her film ' My Grandmother Is an Egg' won Jury Special Mention Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Women Make Waves Film Festival and was officially selected at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SIGGRAPH Asia, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and Guanajuato International Film Festival, etc. The film was screened at Ars Electronica, Garden Taipei Formosa in 2021. Her film ‘Hello to Me in 100 Years’ was officially selected at BFI London Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Her film 'Bird' was officially selected at Norwich Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, Spark Animation Festival, etc.
In recent years, she works as the Adjunct Assistant Professor Rank Specialist in the program of Communication Design at Shih Chien University and the guest speaker at Pennsylvania State University. Besides, she worked as the judge of animation at the Happy Valley Animation Fest, and the Taiwan International Student Design Competition, and as a consultant at Think Tank for Taiwan Cultural Policy at the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taiwan.
The narrative structure of this documentary animated film is based on the recordings of children's interviews in the workshop. At the early stage of production, the crew held an eight-hour children's workshop and then edited the voice that was recorded through the workshop to build the narrative structure. The film can be seen as a dynamic dialectical process.
It is full of children's imagination of the future world. It combines historical archives and childlike visual styles to create a strong contrast with fun and intriguing storytelling.
From the microscopic to the macroscopic. From the individual, the society, to the universe, and finally back to the individual itself. Through the film, I want to propose two questions to the audience. "Will technology advance in the future world make us happier? Or will it make us more alienated and lonelier?" "The primitive land and community in Taiwan 100 years ago, and the city full of technology and speed 100 years from now, which one is more suitable for living?"
The core issue of the film is humanism. We human beings have been pursuing the richness of the spiritual world. No matter how the world and technology change and progress, one thing will not change─ Life needs each other, so that we won’t be alone.
In addition, the film approached multiple issues through ocused interviews with children, including Industrial Revolution 4.0─Machine replacing human workers and modernity. It shows how the next generation solve the environmental and political problems they will encounter.
At the end of the film, the children's painting presents the imagination of a utopia, a scenery imaginary land of joy and plenty where there is no war and plunder, and man and nature coexist peacefully.