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Southeast Asian Premiere
Chang Wen-Hsuan Taiwan 2023 14 min PG13 (Some Mature Content)
This experimental film considers how political prisoners reorder their lives by performing semi-artistic practices.
During the White Terror (1949–1987) in Taiwan, the Kuomintang government imposed martial law and persecuted dissidents and ordinary civilians. Drawing upon accounts of political prisoners confined on Green Island (formerly known as Fire Island), Chang’s film poetically considers the relationship between the labour of production and acts of creativity in bleak circumstances.
In response to the imposed strictures, the prisoners gave new order to their existence on the island by developing their own work and practice. This film contemplates on what it means to produce something from nothing, and how to use and control one’s time in the face of mortality.
Please note this film will be screening as part of a Double Bill with The House of Janus. The overall rating is PG13.
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
1 Dec, Sun 7:30PM / 94 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 2
6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM / 94 min
Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 3
AT THE FEST!
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Chang Wen-Hsuan
Taiwan
2023
Taiwanese Hokkien
English
14 min
PG13 (Some Mature Content)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Chang Wen-Hsuan
Chang Wen-Hsuan makes installations, videos and performance lectures that expose the power tensions embedded in historical narratives. Recognised with the Taipei Art Awards and the Kaohsiung Award, Chang is the founder of Writing FACTory.
Chang Wen-Hsuan
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