The Director's Statement on Punishment Park
Editor's Note: The following excerpt is drawn from a 2005 self-interview by Peter Watkins on Punishment Park. In his introduction, Watkins reflects on how his long-standing critique of the media has...
Neither the End of History nor a Record of the Past: On 'Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive'
From the displacement of Palestinians in 1948, to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon during which the archives of the research centre and film institute were looted by Israeli forces, and on to...
The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentary Cinema
This collaboration between the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) brings together a selection of films that reflect the...
Tracing the Borders of Reality: The Bodyscape of Contemporary Taiwanese Documentaries
Diversity has gradually lost its usefulness as a way of describing recent Taiwanese documentaries, as it no longer adequately captures the nuanced visions filmmakers bring to the screen. After all,...
Carving into the Heart with a Camera: On the 2026 TIDF 'Salute! Chinese Independent Documentaries' Programme
A decade ago, independent programmer Wang Pai-zhang was invited to write a commentary introducing TIDF's Chinese-language independent documentary programme. In the title of his essay, he referenced...
GIVE ME A GROUP OF ISLANDS! REVISITING THE 12 FLOATING ISLANDS SHORTS, 24 YEARS LATER
Rewatching Floating Islands in 2024, I think, is simply a ‘tioh-si’ thing to do.