Tsai

The Desire of Living

excerpt from __The Desire Of Living__
excerpt from The Desire Of Living
HD Video
duration 15 minutes
year 2011
co-producers Sun studio Taiwan
MVRDV Netherlands

The desire of living is a documentary film about East Asian urbanization and metropolisation. In collaboration with a group of architects, the film, conceived during the exhibition ‘Vertical village’, is inspired on research done in different towns such as Tokyo, Beijing and Taipei where I then worked. The unfolding of the filmed story of five Taipei families make it appear obvious that lodging decently in the capital has become a mere fantasy to a great number of us.