Jun Yuan Hong / Waleyart

Taiwan

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His film has been showcased internationally and selected for various film festivals and video art festivals both in Taiwan and abroad. He has been nominated and recipient of various awards, among which are the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize (Second Prize in Photography and Video Art Category); the Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin Film Festival (Selected); the 9^th Holywood Serbia (Best Experimental Film Award); the 10^th Cairo Video Festival (Selected); the SmolShorts Film Festival (Audience Award) at the Universitas Petropolitana in St Petersburg, Russia; the 2019 Copenhagen 60 Seconds Film Festival in Denmark (10 Best Videos Selected by the Jury, and Audience Award); the 2021 Kaohsiung Award (Selected, Video and New Media Art Category); the 2020 SANCF Award (Audiovisual Art Category); and the 8^th Next Art Tainan. His works are included in the collections of the Ministry of Culture’s Art Bank Taiwan, the Arts Center of National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, etc.  

Hong’s film engages in issues related to strong inner emotional, which is a tendency reinforced mainly by his dysfunctional family. Therefore, he tends to construct these tangled feelings through close-up photography and look for people with similar experiences and backgrounds in his films. Through making these people his elements in filming, he is able to create an emotional state shared by these individual lives.