GIVE ME A GROUP OF ISLANDS! REVISITING THE 12 FLOATING ISLANDS SHORTS, 24 YEARS LATER

Rewatching Floating Islands in 2024, I think, is simply a ‘tioh-si’ thing to do. In the Taiwanese Hokkien language, ‘tioh-si’ is often used...

REDISCOVER THE FLOATING ISLANDS

The Floating Islands film project originated from the idea of director Zero Chou, the mastermind, who wanted to shoot on the outlying...

CHANG CHAO-TANG, TAIWAN’S TORCHBEARER IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

If I recall correctly, the early 1970s was when I went from first knowing about Chang Chao-tang to gaining massive respect for him. It all...

ACCUMULATED OVER TIME, A DIVERSE, MATURE AND SEASONED LOOK EMERGES - OBSERVATION OF THE 14TH TIDF TAIWAN COMPETITION

The entries for this year’s Taiwan Competition are characterised by an overall diversity in terms of content and form, a tendency that...

DECADE IN BLUE AND YELLOW: UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARIES

This programme consists of six documentary films shot during the last decade in Ukraine. This journey started in 2014 during the Revolution...

MEMORIES LIBERATED: POSSIBILITIES AND DIVERSITY OF APPROPRIATION FILM

The last TIDF (its 13th edition in 2022) featured ‘Malleable Docu/Memory: Archival/Found Footage and More’, an archival footage-themed...

PRISM-LIKE REALITY AND MEMORY: HISTORY AND THE EVERYDAY CAPTURED ON SMALL-GAUGE FILMS

Film History before the Screens ‘Cinema’ is generally discussed from the perspective of the commercial screening system based on 35mm as...

MORE THAN TWO SIDES TO EACH MEMORY: PETER KEREKES and VIERA ČÁKANYOVÁ

The 'Filmmaker in Focus' functions as an axis of sorts for the festival: by highlighting the style of a single filmmaker, this choice...

LANDSCAPE OF THE TIMES: REALITIES OF MYANMAR

I recall vividly the many days and nights we spent wrestling with coming up with the focus programme for the 2024 Taiwan International...

Interview with Lungnan Isak Fangas for 2021 TIDF 'Taiwan Spectrum'

You moved away from the community with your family and settled in Taipei when you were a child. When you were young, did your parents teach...
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