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The House of Sleeping Beauty 睡美人
The House of Sleeping Beauty 睡美人
The House of Sleeping Beauty 睡美人
The House of Sleeping Beauty 睡美人
The House of Sleeping Beauty 睡美人

The House of Sleeping Beauty睡美人

Color
Sound
16:9
Single-channel Video
production year /
2005
duration /
45'13

There is a peculiar hotel, where the old are accompanied with young girls who always sleep deeply and won’t wake up whatever people have done to them. An old man, Yuan, lost his wife and bore great bitterness. He tried to find some consolation from the young girls but unexpected danger was aroused then…

Selected film festival

The 28th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand France
The 6th Lille International Film Festival, Lille, France
The 19th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
The 7th Seoul international Film Festival”, Seoul, Korean

喪偶的老人來到了一間秘密的旅店,此處提供熟睡的年輕女性一起過夜。在這裡老人不會因為自身的衰老而感到自卑,進而獲得心理的補償。試圖麻痺喪偶悲傷的老人。藉由裸體少女的陪睡得到某種程度上的滿足,明知危險,仍數度忍不住誘惑的驅使而前往此地,少女們讓老人的慾望全告復甦,但也引來了意想不到的種種後果……

入選影展

28th客萊蒙費宏國際短片影展 , 客萊蒙費宏, 法國

6th黎爾國際電影節 , 法國

19th 新加坡國際電影節 , 新加坡

7th 首爾國際電影節 ,首爾, 韓國

about the artist /

Born in Taipei Taiwan.

Chu, ChunTeng graduated from Goldsmith University of London MFA Fine Art. During this BA period, he had made a number of short films and participated in international film festivals by his graduated work “The House of Sleeping Beauty” which was inspired by Kawabata Yasunari’s novel

After graduation from BA, he shifted the direction toward Fine Art, His works have been selected for group shows of “2014 Taipei Biennial- The Great Acceleration ” Kunsthaus Essen, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum Glasgow Center for Contemporary Arts and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2013 Chu ChunTeng found a co- working Art Studio “Polymer” and is its first Executive director until 2015 Dec.

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