Artist Profile Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian

Chu & Tang’s poignant film captures a powerful struggle with written language.

Artist Statement

Clearing the Text describes the dyslexic patient’s intense desire to comprehend text, the despair of being unable to read, and the attempt to regain the ability to read by integrating their body into the text through various methods.

Artist Biography

Chu Ling-Jung

Chu Ling-Jung (starring, script, Art Director) applies dramatic thinking to the performance arts, presenting her works through dramatic chapters. She dramatizes established events in life, dividing each performance art piece into different chapters that connect to form a dramatic whole. By changing her appearance and adjusting the form of performance, she layers narratives and extends the plot through expressive movements. She uses various objects and tools to transform her body, controlling and resisting the physiological phenomena of the female body through performance.

Tang Zi-Xian

Tang Zi-Xian (Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer, Composer) is currently studying in the master’s program of the Film Department at the National Taiwan University of Arts, focusing on directing, producing, and photography. He is a film creator whose core focus is on Taiwan’s unique environment and disadvantaged groups. His university graduation work, Betel Palms, was successfully nominated for Best Short Film at the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival and received nominations for the Golden Harvest Awards and the PTS Innovative Story. Tang Zi-Xian excels at using delicate visual language and deeply rooted narrative methods to capture characters and stories that are often overlooked, with the intention of drawing the audience’s attention to social diversity and tolerance. His works not only showcase the uniqueness of Taiwan’s diverse culture but also aim to convey warmth and resonance through imagery, highlighting the small beauties and resilience of life. He advocates using lenses to document reality and employing artistic cinematic vocabulary to build emotional bridges between people.