Passing through my mother-in-laws's village
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Hu Taili ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2006
- Sujets : Films documentaires -- Asie, Films ethnographiques, Taiwan
- Langue(s) : Chinois, Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD vidéo monoface simple couche zone 0 (87 mn), 4/3, coul.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Film en version originale en saisiat et chinois. Sous-titres en anglais ; Tourné à Taiwan en 1997
Résumé
The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The film maker Hu Tai-Li went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life forever. This film was shot in a natural and intimate climate. During the annual two harvests, various activities in daily life and festivals were presented in the film reflecting the villagers' attitudes towards gods, ghosts, ancestors, women, farmlands, urbanization, industrialization, reclamation and resettlement. The film maker attempted to reveal the Taiwanese way of facing drastic social changes. “In this unusual film—the first Taiwanese documentary to achieve commercial Success—we are treated to a series of affectionate vignettes of life in filmmaker Hu Tai-Li’s mother-in-law’s village before large portions of it are destroyed to make way for the new East-West hightway.”