Lost (1970)

Lost 1970 / 迷 1970 / Mi , Mai , Mei

Caught between two entirely different women, an artist finds himself in conflict between the spiritual and the sensual, and at the same time lost creatively in the cultural clash between East and West. Based on Fan Ho’s 1966 experimental short film ‟Xi Zuo Zhi Yi‟, ‟Lost‟ depicts the artistic and carnal obsession of the modern creative mind. A departure from mainstream Cantonese and Mandarin films with European and Japanese new wave influences, it was shot with the colors of the 1960s and Lishan in Taiwan as backdrop. Sun Po Ling took the film to premiere at Cannes 1970 but failed to release it locally. Lost for half a century, this pioneering independent feature in the 1960s resurfaced in a print found in Taiwan. (Source: Letterboxd)