Private Project

The Space Worriers

In the distant galaxy, on a planet, there are thousands of a race called Earthling, working day and night. At the very beginning of the birth of race, they had found the terminal theory of the universe - Time. The time on the planet is generated by labor. Triggered by working, thinking, expression, consumption, mating and breeding, Earth keeps rolling, accordingly Earthlings survive. But one day, the beautiful dreamland has a new challenge. An immoral alien troop arrives in the solar system. The obscene creators wanna colonize the planet and the resources so they can maintain the lewd and erotic life…

  • Su Hui-Yu
    Director
  • Su Hui-Yu
    Writer
  • Huang Ching-Han
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    太空站士
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, Erotic, Fantacy
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 26, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    60,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.35
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Su Hui-Yu

SU (Su Hui-Yu) obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003, and has remained active in the contemporary art scene and the film society ever since. His “Re-shooting” series(補拍) centers around Taiwanese and East Asian history, memory, re-imagination and transgression. His recent projects engage collective memories and ideologies while exploring the mechanism of oppression and liberation tied to Taiwan cultural values.

SU’s works have been exhibited at renowned festivals, exhibitions and art institutes, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, the Videonale (Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), RISING (Melbourne), Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture(China), Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Brazil), MOCA Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, San Jose Museum of Art (California, USA), Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Kunsthalle Winterthur (Switzerland), 1646 Art Space (Den Haag, The Netherlands) and Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China). In 2017, International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a retrospective to SU’s video works, while his video work Super Taboo had its world premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films. Su returned the competition twice after that in 2019 and 2021. In 2019, Su won the 17th Taishin Arts Award- Visual Art Award. In the summer of 2023, Su’s new project The Space Warriors series will be exhibited at Hyundai ArtLab in Seoul for the finalist of the 5th VH Art Award, and at Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz in Germany. The same year in May, Su’s first museum solo production The Trio Hall was exhibited in MOCA Taipei, curated by Eugenio Viola. In 2024, Su’s first feature film Future Shock - The End of Eternity participated in the Golden Horse International Film festival(World premier) in Taipei and the Transmediale in Berlin.

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Director Statement

This project was inspired by the sci-fi series "Space Warriors" produced by a Taiwan government TV channel during the martial law period. We reverse the nationalist and capitalist ideology in the propaganda at that time and recreate a worldview with more diversities. In this new universe, the earth is a manufacturing base. The aliens appear to be villains, but sometimes they appear to be an idealistic hippie gang, trying to liberate humans to join them through invasion. The Space “Worriers” are like incompetent heroes, torn between the so-called government order and human freedom. This narrative attempts to provide a new imagination for technology and global order nowadays in the form of erotic Sci-Fi.