In April 2018, hundreds of Vietnamese female migrant workers took to the streets in Taiwan, denouncing the cramped and unsanitary conditions of their dormitories, poor diet condition, and the lack of basic necessities. This rare collective protest, live-streamed by the workers, reverberated across Taiwan and Vietnam, exposing the systemic neglect that shapes migrant life.

It was this moment that inspired Dorm (2021), Your Bros invited Vietnamese workers to participate in workshops, where their stories were re-enacted, and expanded through performance. The resulting film examines the dormitory not only as an architecture but as a contested social space—one where labour, gender, and power converge, and where new forms of solidarity and meaning can be forged.

Founded in 2017 by artist So Yo-hen, architect Tien Zong-yuan, and art historian Liao Hsiu-hui, Your Bros embodies an irreverent filmmaking ethos rooted in decentralised collaboration and collective care.

Across their three feature-length works, the group interrogates migrant experience through the politics of space: from temporary shelters, re-constructed dormitories to the layered geographies of Tainan Park. Combining field research, participatory workshops, and collective storytelling, their artistic practice is situated within the material and social realities of migrant labour.

Following the screening, director So Yo-Hen will join artist and theatre-maker Mengting Zhuo and Hester Yang to discuss how Dorm emerged from long-term collaborations with migrant workers in Taiwan. The talk will consider how the project draws on theatrical strategies to give form to lived experience, and how performance and re-enactment become ways of reclaiming agency and reimagining migrant narratives.