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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Videotage × Forum Lenteng: Scales of Passage

Throughout history, 'mobility' has been a fundamental means of survival, while 'diaspora' describes the migration and displacement of...

The Director's Statement on Punishment Park

Editor's Note: The following excerpt is drawn from a 2005 self-interview by Peter Watkins on Punishment Park . In his introduction, Watkins...

Neither the End of History nor a Record of the Past: On 'Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive'

From the displacement of Palestinians in 1948, to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon during which the archives of the research centre and film...

The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentary Cinema

This collaboration between the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)...

Tracing the Borders of Reality: The Bodyscape of Contemporary Taiwanese Documentaries

Diversity has gradually lost its usefulness as a way of describing recent Taiwanese documentaries, as it no longer adequately captures the...
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