Ba Guan – Ah Gong
(Ah Gong)
Synopsis
Summer of 04′, post-SARS. Taipei, Taiwan.
Initially distracted by his western-influenced cousin Tina, Eleven year old Chris eventually discovers that his reluctant mother and his two uncles have decided to pull the plug on his beloved grandfather. The film depicts the impacts of medical intubation on loved ones, seen from the eyes of an eleven year old boy.Summer of 04′, post-SARS. Taipei, Taiwan.
Initially distracted by his western-influenced cousin Tina, Eleven year old Chris eventually discovers that his reluctant mother and his two uncles have decided to pull the plug on his beloved grandfather. The film depicts the impacts of medical intubation on loved ones, seen from the eyes of an eleven year old boy.
Biography and filmography
Born in Canada and raised in Taiwan, Clifford Miu is a writer/director/producer who graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked on Martin Scorsese's SILENCE, and recently served as second assistant director on Renny Harlin's Chinese language film BODIES AT REST. He is a producer on Emily Ann Hoffman's animated short NEVADA, currently Oscar-qualified. He also produced JIE JIE and DEATH METAL GRANDMA, which are now available on HBO GO and New York Times Op-Doc, respectively. He had previously directed PORCUPINE and BARGAIN, both of which had premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
2019 AH GONG (13:50 min, short, fiction)
2017 PORCUPINE (10 min, short, fiction, NYU Tisch thesis film) 2018 BARGAIN (8:22 min, short, fiction, horror)
Production
Linhan Zhang