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Chinese Documentary Film Series ─ Out of Place

華語紀錄片系列 ─《鄉關何處》

 

Director: Hsu Hui-ju 許慧如 │Taiwan│2012│78mins
Subtitles: English and Chinese

During a trip to Europe, Taiwanese female director Hsu Hui-ju discovered that her husband’s family bears extremely high resemblance as North American indigenous people. This led Xu to embark on a journey of tracing back her in-laws’ – the Ji’s – lineage. They reached “Xiao Lin Village” one of the very few villages where the Pingpu culture is preserved, only to witness its destruction by typhoon Morakot.

This documentary not only traces the Ji family’s Pingpu lineage, but also documents the reconstruction of Xiao Lin village and the Pingpu culture that embodied. While Taiwanese indigenous people hid their aboriginality in various ways during the past era of colonization, the destruction of Xiao Lin village by Morakot rekindled the will of its emotionally battered villagers to rebuild and celebrate indigenous culture. This is also when Xu found out she was expecting – when the clues are disrupted, how does one trace the path back to his or her hometown? This documentary seeks life through life itself.

台灣女導演許慧如因一次歐洲之旅中,在老照片中發現丈夫姬姓一家的長相和北美原住民肖像極似,從而走上尋找夫家血統之路,為了尋找真相,他們來到國內少數平埔文化保存完整的「小林村」,然而災難毫無預兆,八八水災一夕淹滅「小林村」。紀錄片一方面向上尋溯姬家的平埔血統,一方面紀錄小林村重建居所與重建平埔文化的過程,在歷經殖民的台灣,原住民的地位一直在其他民族之下,族民千方百計掩飾自己的身份。災難的悲傷使小林村村民在死者的生後,重現部落文化,此時導演亦懷上了姬家的孩子,片中以生命尋找生命,在線索截斷無法印證之下,原鄉,到底在何處?

 

Date: 12 March 2013 (Wed)
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venue: LBYG01, B.Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University
Co-organizer: Centre for Cinema Studies, Lingnan University
ILP Unit(s): 1.5 (Civic Education)
CRN: 2185

 

日期: 2014年3月12日 (星期三)
時間: 下午5時30分至7時
地點: 嶺南大學林炳炎樓地下LBYG01 室
合辦: 嶺南大學電影研究中心
ILP學分: 1.5 (公民教育)
CRN: 2185