City of Lost Things
廢棄之城 | Taiwan | 2021
Special Encore
Taiwan | Animation | 2021 | 91 minutes | in Mandarin w/English subtitles
Director: Yee Chih-yen
Voice casts: Joseph Chang, River Huang, Gwei Lun-mei
Film Source: Applause Taiwan
Winner of Best Animated Film at the Golden Horse Film Festival in 2020
In-Cinema Screening
Sunday, Oct 23 at 4:30 PM
@ Tower Auditorium at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
SYNOPSIS
As a struggling sixteen-year-old teenager, Leaf runs away from home, skips classes, and ends up, mysteriously, in a peculiar place-the City of Lost Things. There, he meets Baggy, a thirty-year-old plastic bag. Baggy never sees himself as just another piece of unwanted junk. He has a purpose in life, that is, to lead his tribe to flee the City of Lost Things. But, he needs the help of a reluctant Leaf to fight the dreadful army of the Armors.
“A CGI animated film, surprises not only because of the well-scripted, tightly knit story but also because of its inventive animation. It manages this without relying on high-budget technical wizardry, per se, but by creative use of rather basic CGI elements.”— Brian Hioe, cinemaescapist.com
“Operating as a metaphor for the plight of the millions of people who call the streets their home, CITY speaks to the importance of each one of these lost souls and the damage a society inflicts when it chooses to treat people as less than human.”—Steve Norton, intheseats.ca
STILL GALLERY
TRAILER
DIRECTOR
Yee Chih-yen
Mr. Yee majored in film production in Department of Theatre Arts at UCLA and got his MFA degree in 1989. After returning to Taiwan and working in TV commercials for years, he made his first feature Lonely Hearts Club in 1996 which was selected in competition in International Film Festival Rotterdam. He made his second feature Blue Gate Crossing in 2003 which was shown in Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight. His third feature Meeting Dr. Sun in 2014 won both the best picture and audience choice awards in Osaka Asian Film Festival, and also won the best original screenplay in Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. After more than ten years in production, his latest and his first 3D animation feature City of Lost Things, a boy and a plastic bag’s adventure concerning recycling and reincarnation won the best animation feature in 2020 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and is scheduled to be released later this year.
