Chiayi City International Art Documentary Film Festival
Open History
The New Rijksmuseum
Oeke HOOGENDIJK
Netherlands｜2014｜94 min｜Chinese/English Subtitles｜G
3/29 Sun. 19:30 ★Closing Film
The documentary is about the fascinating and complicated process of rebuilding the most famous museum in Holland, The Rijksmuseum. The film shows the people behind the scenes during the years of demolition, restoration, and political and financial debate. Their efforts, joys and struggles have one goal in common: the love for art.
China Action
WEN Pulin
China｜1999｜57 min｜Chinese/English Subtitles｜R
3/28(Sat.) 13:00 ★ Taiwan Premiere
Beginning WEN's project at the end of twentieth century, the creation represents a comprehensive coverage of Chinese contemporary art. The film records the birth and development of performance art in China over 10 years, as well as its impact on contemporary art. It also reveals a reflection upon the artists themselves in addition to their ideals on artistic expression. A number of the film shots and sequences have already become representative moments in the history of Chinese contemporary art.
Modeling Taiwan
HUANG Ting-Fu
Taiwan｜2000｜80 min｜Chinese Subtitles｜R
3/22(Sun.) 13:00 ☆Filmmaker in Attendance
This is a documentary of the lives and work of figure art models in Taiwan, recording 7 female figure models during work along with their true feelings. It shows their struggles to shake off the stereotype of how they are looked at and interpreted. Despite the pressures that they receive in a mainstream society, the models are searching for the rights to take back control of their own bodies and dignity.
Songs Way Back When
TSAO Wen-Jay
Taiwan｜1999｜56 min｜Chinese Subtitles｜G
3/20(Fri.) 19:00 ☆Filmmaker in Attendance
With respect to the earliest pop songs in Taiwan, these should not be ignored: Bāng Chhun-hong (Spring Breeze), Rainy Night Flower, and Moonlight Sorrow. This film races the 1930s in Taiwan, when a record label had been established by a Japanese, who employed hot singers like HONG Yi-fong and WEN Hsia. The interviews contain the celebrities and broadcasting in good old days so that the audiences are able to follow up the history of Taiwanese pop songs over 80 years, and reflect on detailed ordinary lives in generations.
The Legend of Fat Mama
Rafeeq ELLIAS
India｜2005｜25 min｜Chinese/English Subtitles｜G
3/14(Sat.) 17:00 ★Taiwan Premiere ☆Filmmaker in Attendance
The tragicomedy of the Chinese community in Calcutta begins with a nostalgic journey in search of a woman who once made the most delicious noodles in the Chinatown. A variety of scenes are interwoven in the film: thriving street food, fading family-run eateries, ahjong clubs in uproar, and the first female lion dance team preparing for the Chinese New Year. The Legend of Fat Mama had been broadcasted in over 200 countries and won multiple awards around the world.
Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn
Rafeeq ELLIAS
India｜2015｜30 min｜Chinese/English Subtitles｜G
3/14(Sat) 17:00 ★World Premiere ☆Filmmaker in Attendance
History repeated itself after the war between India and China that occurred in 1962. Nearly 5,000 ethnic Chinese who had resided in Calcutta for centuries were rounded up and taken to northeastern India, the camps in Deoli, Rajasthan. Years after the release, many Indian Chinese immigrated overseas to North America, Europe and the Far East ––principally to Canada. Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn is a film about the Chinese diasporic memoirs.
Beyond the Borderline
LEE Meng-Jer
Taiwan｜2000｜40 min｜Chinese Subtitles｜G
3/22(Sun.) 19:00
This film shows the history of the Jingzhong 1st Military Dependents' Village shot in the year 1997 until the dismantlement in the year 2000. Seeking the locals related to director's classmates from elementary school, the film touches on the ordinary lives in transition, such as work and marriage. Under the lens, an inevitable relocation arrangement would never take away countless nostalgic gazes from their lost streets.
Foot Print
WU Ping-Hai
Taiwan｜2015｜38min｜Chinese/English Subtitles｜G
3/22(Sun.) 19:00 ★World Premiere ☆Filmmaker in Attendance
Foot Print tells the story of fading lives in Jian-guo 2nd military dependents' village. Most of the Residents were from China, served military along with their families during WWII and civil war between KMT and CCP in China. Those were the days KMT
defeated and longed to recover the lost territory in Mainland China. As time goes by, everything has changed. This documentary focuses on the veteran YEN Dingyuan and his family. Through their memories. It traces back to Shandong (China), Chiayi (Taiwan), and the KMT's defeat by Chinese communists after WWII.
