sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars
For six hours from sunset on 24 June 2014, a 100-foot-long roll of 35mm negative film was buried beneath fallen leaves along a rural roadside approximately 25 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi...
Leaving for the Front Line, Spiritual Mobilization
Digitised in 2025, two 16mm films from Taiwan's Japanese colonial period are presented together. The first captures a national mobilisation rally in Taichung and the fervour surrounding a troops'...
Military Drill for Student Soldiers, Shinto Matsuri
Digitised in 2025, two 16mm films from Taiwan's Japanese colonial period are presented together. The first captures a national mobilisation rally in Taichung and the fervour surrounding a troops'...
Mujō (The Heartless)
Released circa 1942-1943, Kokumin Dojo (Civilian Training Centre) was a Japanese state-sponsored propaganda film documenting rituals used to convert Taiwanese people into 'imperial' Japanese subjects...
Archive: Li Guang-hui
Suniuo (1919-1979), also known as Li Guang-hui, was an Indigenous Taiwanese soldier for Japan. Unaware of Japan's WWII surrender, he remained hidden in the jungle for thirty years. The film follows...
A Taiwanese Teikoku Kunjin
A Taiwanese Teikoku Kunjin revisits the wartime mobilisation of Taiwanese youth. Through the testimonies of five young men drafted in their twenties as volunteers, medics, or kamikaze trainees, and...
Suspended Duty: Taiwan Military Training Regiment
Formed in 1950 under General Sun Li-jen, Taiwan's Military Training Regiment recruited over 4,000 young men to build a new army. Abruptly ordered into 'suspended duty', they waited decades without...