Everything begins with clothes. From the cradle to the grave. From every private corner to theatres of the public sphere. Yet not everything is... More

Everything begins with clothes. From the cradle to the grave. From every private corner to theatres of the public sphere. Yet not everything is clothes. In this film we follow a motley group of quirky characters as they follow the life and death of clothes from the factory floor to the many mise-en-scene of their distribution and consumption, from the department store to the night market and the post-consumer afterlife of the metropolitan recycling bin. We see them tap-dancing in parking lots, parading down the underpasses of the fashion world. Just like Fellini perceives his beloved city in his film ROMA in a very personal way, Hung Hung also makes this film about Taipei where he lives as a both fairly realistic and surrealistic city. In a pastiche of the cinematic genres ranging from the documentary to the musical, this poetic and experimental feature provides us glimpses, both humorous and sad, into the ineffable interior life of people in search of themselves of shoes that dream of flying. Close