Photography Book of 921 Earthquake - Reconstructing Experience from Shuang-Chi Tribe
Through the lens, we see a group of Atayal people living through the aftermath of September 21 earthquake. Their homes have vanished and important roads that access the outside world have been buried...
Pick of the Litter - Stray Dogs in Taiwan
Genial is a stray dog, but he doesn’t live up to his name. Having been a stray for so many years, Genial is not the habit of trusting human beings. On January 12 1996 the Panchiao pound in Taipei...
A Short Movie about Youngers in Taiwan 2001
“In 2001, I used my camera to document the experiences of two friends of mine. As I looked through the lens, I realized that their life had benn slipping away, entering isolation and alienation, and...
Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu
In the fifties, many Taiwanese intellectuals, workers and farmers were suspected of being communist spies by the dictatorial authority. They were either jailed or killed. Hsu Chin-yu was one of them...
Would Someone Listen to Me
Taiwanese Spiderman are not Hollywood movie stars. They are construction workers who spend their lives on the Southern Cross-island Highway. Most of them are Atayal people from Hualian. With their...
The Harvest of My Lai
On March 16 1968, the US Army’s 11th Light Infantry Brigade under the command of Lt. William Calley, completely destroyed the village My Lai and three hundred individuals were massacred. The GI’s...
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klause Barbie
Knowing popular parlance as ‘The Butcher of Lyon’, Klause Barbie was a notorious World War II criminal. He was the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, during Nazi occupation, filling dread in the...
November Days
This is an idiosyncratic work from a master of his craft, combining his customary cynicism with biting comment as he meticulously investigates his subject matter - this time that world famous edifice...
The Sorrow and the Pity
While Parisian ‘society’ continues in its usual spin of theatre, opera, horse racing and carefully choreographed love affairs under Nazi occupation, the sleepy town of Clermont-Ferrand welcomes their...
The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime
The unlikely setting of the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo provides the focus of Marcel OPHÜLS’ exploration of journalistic ethics during wartime. From this base, OPHÜLS and his camera follow international...