Fragments of a stolen memory: Efforts to reclaim the Palestinian image
Original text by Kino Palestine In March, Al Jazeera released Karnit Mandel's 2021 documentary A Reel War on their YouTube channel. The film bears a striking resemblance to Rona Sela's Looted (2019...
Another Form of Alternative Record in an Era of Upheaval: From the Balcony into the Crowd, Over Time
In the late 1980s, Taiwanese society underwent profound upheaval. With the founding of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1986 and the lifting of martial law the following year, street movements...
Sensing Reality Beyond Words: A Retrospective of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Lucien Castaing-Taylor: 'It is also, to be sure, the realm of the nonverbal and the nondiscursive, or, in Foucault's neo-Kantian terms, the "seeable" (though why privilege sight?
A Retrospective Perspective: On 'War Memories, Shifting Identities'
In 2024, director Lau Kek-huat completed the five-hour documentary From Island to Island, examining the Southeast Asian theatre of the Second World War. The film directly confronts the role of...
Defending a Space That Is Never a Given — On Viewpoint Receiving the TIDF Outstanding Contribution Award
To trace the origins of Taiwan's public broadcasting system is to confront a paradoxical point of departure — one that is bound up with documentary film, yet equally shaped by political intervention...
Videotage × Forum Lenteng： Scales of Passage
Throughout history, 'mobility' has been a fundamental means of survival, while 'diaspora' describes the migration and displacement of entire communities. While the terms differ by a single character...