Mei-hua LAN Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chen-Chi University Ching-hui LEE, City of Memories, 101 minutes, 2007. Chao-ti HO, The Gangster’s God, 49 minutes, 2006. Hsiu-mei LI, I Am in a Hand Puppet Troupe, 55 minutes, 2007. City of Memories, The Gangster’s God and I Am in a Hand Puppet Troupe are the three Taiwanese documentaries selected for the…
Tzu-ning LEE Chairperson, TIEFF Selection Committee / National Taiwan Museum 1.A Rainbow of Color At the beginning of this year, when we finally decided that “Indigenous Voices” would be the theme for the 2007 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, we had no idea from what angle and in what form the theme would be interpreted and presented. The spirit of…
Hung-Min TZENG Doctoral Student Graduate Institute of Anthropology National Taiwan University “Indigenous Voices” was selected as the theme for the 2007 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival in hopes that indigenous films would offer local perspectives and give indigenous voices the chance to be heard, thereby encouraging reflection and dialog with the rest of the world. The over one hundred documentaries…
Introduction to the Three Films from the Program “Formosa Aboriginal News Magazine” on Taiwan Indigenous TV in the 2007 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival Cheng-liang TSAI Ph.D.Student The Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University Seeing is a simple enough concept, but seeing without understanding is not truly seeing, seeing without appreciating is not truly seeing, seeing without respecting is…
Wen-ling LIN Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chiao Tung University From the beginning of the development of anthropology, aboriginal peoples around the world have been the primary object of ethnographical films. In recent years, the historical processes through which aboriginal peoples have been written about and represented have gradually shifted to a social context in which…