Lecture Performance: Re-discovery of Deng Nan-guang’s 8mm Films

Artists: Chunni LIN, HUANG Pang-chuan, Yujun WANG

Like the documentary nature of movies, historical clues are always found in details. In 1996, some 8mm films labelled 'Deng Nan-guang 8mm' were donated to the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, comprising street scenes in Japan and Taiwan in the 1930s and 1960s and family scenes. These curled and sour film strips recorded ordinary life but also concealed secrets to unravel.   Created by two filmmakers and a musician, the 'lecture performance' based on these films guides the audience to decode the symbols on the camera, the codes on the films, and the clues of the historical documents, revisiting film history and actual scenes and leading into the beautiful era at the origin of small-gauge film.

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