Yellow Box
( Huang Wu Shou Ji )

Ting-Fu Huang
2006 - 53 min - Noir & Blanc - Taiwan

Scantily dressed in a bra and miniskirt the taiwanese girls sell betel nuts in glass shops along the roads and motorways. They are the sales tools, and they need to arouse the customer's taste. A table, a high chair, a mirror, a fridge and dimmed neon lighting. The saleswomen sit inside an aquarium for up to twelve hours a day.
The film's black-and-white images depict the work of these women. The body is often reduced to fragments: it is only the vehicle of a secondary sexuality, a sexuality intended to influence customers.

Commerce | Femme | Portrait | Travail | Vie urbaine | Taïwan


Author-Director : Ting-Fu Huang
Photography : Ting-Fu Huang
Sound : Yuan-Fon Chao
Editing : Shuwa Zhang
Delegate Producer : Liyu Chen

Distribution


Distributor : Ting-Fu Huang

Distinctions

2006 - Visions du Réel, Nyon (Suisse) : Mention spéciale du jury
2006 - Doclisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental, Lisbonne (Portugal) : Sélection
2006 - Festival des 3 continents, Nantes (France) : Meilleur documentaire