→ Close Project

SOLITARY WAVE

Official Selection, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2025

SOLITARY WAVE
2025

Single-channel video
24 min
Burmese with English subtitles

Set inside a pastry factory in Myanmar during a time of escalating conflict, Solitary Wave unfolds on the edge of an unseen war.

As distant explosions grow closer and electricity becomes unstable, the workers are asked to vote: stay, or leave.The film does not depict the battlefield. Instead, it observes the suspended psychological state before violence fully arrives — a condition in which daily routines continue under the weight of uncertainty.

Through restrained cinematography and performances drawn from real factory workers, the film explores choice, agency, and collective vulnerability within a confined space.Rather than focusing on spectacle, Solitary Wave examines the subtle shifts in speech, silence, and gesture that occur when history approaches but has not yet erupted.

It is a film about anticipation, fragile autonomy, and the quiet aftershocks that ripple through ordinary lives.

《餘波》Solitary Wave｜ 2025｜劇情短片

故事發生在緬甸一間糕點工廠。戰火逐漸逼近，遠方傳來爆炸聲，電力供應開始不穩定。工廠裡的工人被要求投票，決定是留下繼續工作，或離開避難。影片並未呈現戰場畫面，而是停留在暴力尚未真正抵達之前的心理狀態。在不確定持續蔓延的情境中，日常仍然運作，生產仍然進行。透過克制的影像語言與由真實工人參與的表演，《餘波》關注的是個體在結構性壓力之下的選擇、猶疑與集體處境。這是一部關於「尚未發生之事」的電影。它描繪的不是爆發瞬間，而是歷史逼近時，無聲擴散的心理震動。

PRODUCTION

SCREENINGS

CREDITS

Production Supervisors
Fang-Ting Shih
Ching-Hao Wen

Producers
Fang-Ting Shih
Ching-Hao Wen

Writer
Fang-Ting Shih

Director of Photography / Gaffer
Ou Chengaoge

Art Designers / Dressers
Fang-Ting Shih
Ching-Hao Wen

Assistant Camera Operator / Best Boy
Ching-Hao Wen

Editor
Fang-Ting Shih

Sound Designer / Sound Mixer
Chung-Kuang Liu

Composer
Yu-Lin Chiang

Colorist
Jia-Jhen Chui