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.
REDISCOVER THE FLOATING ISLANDS
The Floating Islands film project originated from the idea of director Zero Chou, the mastermind, who wanted to shoot on the outlying islands of Taiwan. She and a group of like-minded filmmakers—some...
CHANG CHAO-TANG, TAIWAN’S TORCHBEARER IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
If I recall correctly, the early 1970s was when I went from first knowing about Chang Chao-tang to gaining massive respect for him. It all began when I leafed through an early issue of Theatre...
ACCUMULATED OVER TIME, A DIVERSE, MATURE AND SEASONED LOOK EMERGES - OBSERVATION OF THE 14TH TIDF TAIWAN COMPETITION
The entries for this year’s Taiwan Competition are characterised by an overall diversity in terms of content and form, a tendency that remains consistent with the ever-expanding definition and...
DECADE IN BLUE AND YELLOW: UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARIES
This programme consists of six documentary films shot during the last decade in Ukraine. This journey started in 2014 during the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan. Rough Cut, 2014) and led us through...
MEMORIES LIBERATED: POSSIBILITIES AND DIVERSITY OF APPROPRIATION FILM
The last TIDF (its 13th edition in 2022) featured ‘Malleable Docu/Memory: Archival/Found Footage and More’, an archival footage-themed programme that explores approaches for representing reality and...