We all know うなぎ (The Eel), Imamura Shohei’s 1997 film bearing that name. This time, the mysterious fish will grace the title of Taiwanese director and artist Chu Chun-Teng‘s first long feature.
More known as an artist whose work has been exhibited at the 2014 Taipei Biennial — The Great Acceleration, Kunsthaus Essen, the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, the Glasgow Center for Contemporary Arts, or the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Chu Chun Teng directed a handful of short films, among them The House of Sleeping Beauty, which travelled to numerous film festivals, namely the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival.

For Eel, a first feature film he wrote and directed last year, Chu Chun Teng called on two Vietnamese for cinematography and music: Nguyễn Vinh Phúc, whose stunning work for Trần Thanh Huy‘s Ròm and Lê Bảo‘s Vị (Taste) was highly praised, and composer Tôn Thất An who also composed the score of Ròm.
The film is now on the final stage of post-production.
More information to come soon!