Farewell Taipei

As its name suggests, Farewell Taipei by director ZHENG Miaoxin is a story about parting. Perhaps all of us have had similar experiences—saying goodbye to a phase of life, to the place we once lived, to the people we met back then. It’s not something heavy; it’s even a little seductive. It’s a kind of melancholy that floats in the air, subtle but everywhere. So we go through it—by embracing it in an all-night celebration. We record it—giving it a rough, subjective texture through the camera. And so, in that final morning light, we bid it farewell—with quiet solemnity.

Therefore, this film is intimate. Not merely in the way farewells carry a tender longing. In this film, intimacy becomes something more—a language of the camera that pierces the boundary between image and reality, a story that gently blurs the line between fiction and truth. It is an intimacy expressed by the director, and genuinely felt by the viewer—an intimacy born from a deep love for cinema.

– YANG Linsi