Synopsis

In a factory driven by endless ambition, a mysterious wooden idol grants every wish for success. A young worker devotes himself to it—until a hidden room reveals a different world and sparks a desire for change.​

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Concept

What is work? In physics, it’s the transfer of energy. Force moves an object, carries it some distance. But how does it actually work? And what about us—how do we work? What for? Why work? Does it really work? Again, What is work?

 

About the Producer

Angel HUANG is a producer and the founder of Future Connect Ltd. Force Times Displacement is her first animated production.
She works across animation, fiction, and unscripted formats, focusing on bold, genre-blending storytelling.

 

Before founding her company, she worked in film marketing and distribution in Beijing.
Back in Taiwan, she developed Light the Wild, the first Taiwanese unscripted show acquired by Netflix for global distribution.

She studied film producing at Taipei National University of the Arts.

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Producer's Statement​

This story began with a question from my own life. I was trained as an engineer, but chose to follow my love for cinema instead.

 

In our early 30s, many people around me were making bold career shifts—leaving stable lives behind. I was curious: what drives such change?

 

I see this film as a kind of invitation—something that resonates with others navigating similar turning points.

We often choose our careers before we truly know ourselves. But as we grow, we’re allowed to change, to fall in love with something new.

 

This film is about that transformation. To me, it’s very beautiful.

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About the Director

Angel WU was born in Taipei in 1998. She graduated from Taipei National University of Arts in 2020. With pencil, ink, watercolor, wood, sound, and sometimes zebrafish, she shapes the questions that come to her. Questions about bloodlines, empires, mental illness, time, love, light, Wall Street, eyesight, entropy, eternity, poverty, beauty, and the first 22 hours of zebrafish life…  She works as a calligrapher and filmmaker in Taipei, Taiwan. Her recent films include drawn undrew draw (2020) and Force x Displacement (2025).

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Director's Statement

We do animation for fun.
We work, think, and breathe.
We find art in science and science in art.
We craft logical narratives through illogical expressions.
We scream, we create chaos, we hurl madness onto the big screen.
We hope you take some playful slices from the big screen with you, see you.