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The 45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4-October 4, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. Almost all the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person shows when both are offered. This program is available Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM. This in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
In the summer of 2025, I had the opportunity to work with an antique hand-cranked movie projector from 1909. This experience led me to reflect on the evolution of film as an artistic medium and inspired me to experiment with hand-painting on film for the first time.
The impermanence of life is reflected in the fragility of the medium itself and the instability of machine operation. Although only 35 millimeters wide, it stretches for hundreds of feet, unfolding like a small-scale yet lengthy scroll painting. As an 800-watt light shines through the painted material and I turn the gears by hand, history unfolds and flows before my eyes. Time has not reversed; it has simply found a crack in which a boat may sail, and the wind may sing.
The title "Listen to the wind eight hundred times" is borrowed from an old Chinese anecdote.
Having heard the wind pass by countless times, one has finally come to realize the landscape of life, the Dao of life.
- Year2026
- Runtime15 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- FilmmakerCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- EditorCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- Sound DesignCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- MusicMichael Pisaro-Liu
The 45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4-October 4, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. Almost all the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person shows when both are offered. This program is available Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM. This in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
In the summer of 2025, I had the opportunity to work with an antique hand-cranked movie projector from 1909. This experience led me to reflect on the evolution of film as an artistic medium and inspired me to experiment with hand-painting on film for the first time.
The impermanence of life is reflected in the fragility of the medium itself and the instability of machine operation. Although only 35 millimeters wide, it stretches for hundreds of feet, unfolding like a small-scale yet lengthy scroll painting. As an 800-watt light shines through the painted material and I turn the gears by hand, history unfolds and flows before my eyes. Time has not reversed; it has simply found a crack in which a boat may sail, and the wind may sing.
The title "Listen to the wind eight hundred times" is borrowed from an old Chinese anecdote.
Having heard the wind pass by countless times, one has finally come to realize the landscape of life, the Dao of life.
- Year2026
- Runtime15 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- FilmmakerCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- EditorCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- Sound DesignCherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
- MusicMichael Pisaro-Liu