Wen, Tien-Hsiang (Film Critic) This year’s first-ever Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (TIEFF) features classic and new works of ethnographic filmmaking from Taiwan and beyond. Although this year’s theme is “2001 Island Odyssey,” TIEFF’s New Visions program will transport audiences to more continental destinations with its program of uniquely expressive films on Tibet, Cambodia, India, Holland, Macedonia and…
Behind The Scenes of And Deliver Us from Evil: the documentary makers in Orchid Island (Lan-yu) Chen, Liang-feng Full Shot Foundation I’ll always remember the skipjack season, May, the serene Orchid Island, the unforgettable open-air Tribal Cinema, all in 1999. As a documentary maker, aside from shooting, I have been working on one of Panorama Communications Foundation’s projects, which aims…
MA Tung-Yu, Graduate student, Graduate School of Anthropology, National Ching Hwa University In September 2001, Taiwan will host its first International Ethnographic Film Festival. As a special treat for Taiwan’s audience and connoisseurs of ethnographic films, festival organizers will show three films by distinguished American anthropologist and filmmaker, Margaret Mead, and her husband Gregory Bateson: Trance and Dance in Bali (1952), Kaba’s…
By Li, Tzu-ning From the vantage point of Taiwan, Orchid Island appears distant and strange. Although it is only 40 nautical miles from Taiwan, that short span separates two very different worlds–one ever-evolving, modern and dynamic; the other existing peacefully in the past. Summer typhoons are apparently the only things that hit Orchid Island before they hit Taiwan. The people…