On a rainy midnight in 2022, I met a stranger in a park.
In 1954, under the same rain, HUANG Liang-Sheng met a stranger in the same park.
In 1954, under the same rain, HUANG Liang-Sheng met a stranger in the same park.
He said there used to be a playground here.
He still comes back, now only after midnight.
He still comes back, now only after midnight.
He has been coming here often. Day and night.
Something about a case. Something about rebellion.
“Have you heard of it?”
Something about a case. Something about rebellion.
“Have you heard of it?”
It feels like the same place, but not entirely the same.
The park becomes something else.
A playground that exists only at midnight.
A playground that exists only at midnight.
Written and Directed by
YANG JIE-HUAI
LU PO-SHUN
LU PO-SHUN
Starring
CHUANG YUEH
HSU YU-TING
HSU YU-TING
Year
2023
Duration
25 min
Country
Taiwan
Supported by
Chi-Wen Productions
Award
Golden Harvest Awards – Best Experimental Film Nominee
Kaohsiung Film Festival – Jury Award (Taiwan Section)
Kaohsiung Film Festival – Jury Award (Taiwan Section)
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Installation
Photo by ANPIS FOTO 王世邦
Medium
Mixed-media installation
(plastic slides, wood, acrylic, video)
(plastic slides, wood, acrylic, video)
Dimensions
Variable
Exhibition
Signal Z, MOCA Taipei
Jul 29 – Oct 22, 2023
Jul 29 – Oct 22, 2023
Midnight Playground is set within a city park, a space that shifts between day and night, visibility and concealment. The work draws on the contrasting conditions of the park, as both a public playground and a site of hidden encounters. Through reenactment, it traces the multiple layers embedded in the space.
The installation combines video, sound, and playground structures, transforming the exhibition site into an immersive, theater-like environment. The viewer moves through a constructed landscape shaped by memory, presence, and absence.
The narrative interweaves personal experience with a historical case from the White Terror period, unfolding across different temporal layers of the same site. As the work progresses, the park emerges as a space where desire, control, and memory intersect, inviting reflection on how bodies and histories inhabit public space.