Video, sound, and painting, 2025.
In Unnamed Nightshade, Candy Bird uses personal memories of corporal punishment and authoritarian schooling as an entry point to link intimate trauma with public history. The work examines the ideological divisions left by the Cold War in post-WWII Taiwan. By placing these historical traces within today’s “new Cold War” context in East Asia, the film turns bodily memory into a tool for understanding the present.
Candy Bird 以求學時期受體罰與威權教育的個人記憶為入口，將私人創傷與公共歷史相連結，檢視了舊冷戰結構在台灣留下的意識形態分歧，並於今日東亞的新冷戰背景下，將身體記憶轉化為一種理解當下的工具。
Director, screenwriter: Candy Bird
Starring: Kokü Liu
Director of Photography: Juan Hsiang Wen
1st AC: Cheng Hsiang Yun
Sound design: Mothra productions
Character design: fificaca
Special Thanks: Chang Yating , Sung Wei Hsuan
