The first Experimental Media Art Festival in Taiwan (EXIT) will open in Taipei on Thursday featuring a wide range of avant-garde films from Asia and Canada that are rarely exhibited in museum galleries or screened in local film festivals.

The four-day festival will run simultaneously with the Asia Forum, during which film curators, researchers and artists will gather and share their views on how to integrate the resources and set up a transnational platform to market the experimental films made by Asian artists.

The first Asia Forum was held in Seoul last year. It will be the first time that movie lovers in Taiwan will be able to see experimental media works from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, and Canada in a single festival.