Bougies d’allumage by Hubert Kilian

This filming plan started in 2019 and will gradually take shape in 2021. For me, this creation is a re-examination of Taipei from a new perspective, which is very different from my past works. I had to find a new way to interpret the city and capture a different side of Taipei. This time, I chose color and day, trying to find an opportunity to start a new dialogue with the city.

About Hubert Kilian

Hubert KILIAN [余白] has been Taipei-based French journalist from 2003 to 2016. In 1996, he began his photographic journey with the desire to record shadows cast by the cities and marks left through times on walls. Since then, he has been working to expose the relationship between the dwellers and environment that conditions and transcends them. Through this urban momentum, marked with lonely atmospheres, a stage for obsolete modernity and nostalgia, Hubert seeks to reveal the dramatic potential of this great spectacle of time and people passing by and of stones that remain. By choice, Taipei is one of his favorite subjects. It’s a moody city which the elusive beauty is never given at the first sight. His work has been shown on TV5 Canada, Arte, Formosa TV, Asia Discovery, France Culture, Art Critique of Taiwan, Public Service Television, Vogue Taiwan, Tatler Taiwan, Apple Daily, United Daily News, etc…. He has exhibited in France, Japan and Taiwan. In 2018, he has published “Visages de Taipei” with Happiness Culture editions (sold out), followed by “Ventre de Taipei” published in 2022 by Locus Publishing.