Heroes with No Name: Coal Miners in Ruifang
Situated in the hills leading down to the coast, Ruifang used to pride itself on its coal mining industry. Every morning, miners from surrounding neighbourhoods gathered here to put on their gears...
When Mullet Come (Digital Restoration)
The grey mullet is known for its roe, a beloved delicacy in Taiwan. Every year around the winter solstice, schools of grey mullet migrate south to spawn. When the cold current hits Taiwan, so comes...
Legends of the Sun Moon Lake
Legend has it that the fish in the Sun Moon Lake was transformed from a white deer, and it’s why indigenous people started to eat fish. A large serpent living inside an ancient camphor tree was said...
The Mysterious Lanyu
In the 1970s, the wave of modernisation hit the Orchid Island (Lanyu). Warship Rock, Double Lion Rock, Lover’s Cave, the wisely and artistically designed tatala (traditional fishing boat), along with...
Professor Chu's Summer Homework: The Struggle of Women Workers at Ban-Chiao Clothing Factory
In June 1992, the management of Jia-long Clothing closed down its domestic factory to transfer its capital and manufacturing department to Indonesia, right after its labour union in Taiwan was formed...
Chin-song and Xiao-shah's Wedding Plaza
Chin-song and Xiao-shah are getting married. The joyous couple’s loving confessions and their aspirations in life are captured in close-up shots. Juxtaposing the interior shots of the newlyweds’...
A Work in Progress
When a child comes into their lives, how will a couple adjust to the changes? This film can be seen as a sequel to Chin-song and Xiao-shah’s Wedding Plaza: It opens with their expectations for...
Eleven Men
Eleven Men is composed of scenes from a range of Vietnamese classic films featuring the same central actress, Như Quỳnh. Spanning three decades of her legendary acting career, most of the...
Everyday's the Seventies
Different versions of the same history—one personal, another depicted by cinema, the third described by the media—are laid on top of each other and collapsed. Mixing footage from Hong Kong movies of...
Fifth Cinema
The late Māori filmmaker Barry BARCLAY, who first introduced the concept of ‘Fourth Cinema’ to distinguish indigenous cinema from the established ‘First, Second, and Third Cinema’ framework, provides...