Nicole Vögele was born in Gretzenbach, in 1983. She has been a journalist for various Swiss TV programs since 2002. From 2010 to 2017, she studied documentary filmmaking at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her first short films, Frau Loosli (2013) and Into the Innards (2014), premiered at many international film festivals. In 2014, her essay film Fog was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and other international festivals, among others in Taiwan. Some of the impressions she gathered there resonated later. The question of what acceleration and the 24/7-hour society do to us took her back to Taipei, where she shot Closing Time.
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway and goes to the sea...
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway and goes to the sea...