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Films showcasing
Aboriginal culture set to be screened
Staff Writer, with CNA
Films dealing with Taiwanese Aboriginal culture are to be shown at a number of
Aboriginal villages and towns around the nation to encourage Aborigines to tell
their own stories.
The screenings will take place starting today.
Wsay Kolas, head of the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation, said the films,
made by Aborigines as well as Han Taiwanese directors, would be screened in the
open and they would be free.
Following the screenings, villagers would be encouraged to discuss Aboriginal
topics with the directors, Kolas said.
“The purpose of the screenings is to help Aborigines establish their own
perspective and subjectivity,” Kolas said. “We hope to encourage villagers to
pick up video cameras and to film their own stories.”
Bauki Angaw, a communications professor and the coordinator of the event, said
he hoped that by “bringing the movies home” the event would not only help
Aborigines become aware of how they are perceived, but also encourage directors
to take responsibility for the works they produce.
“Aborigines are not only good at baseball and dancing,” director Laway Dalay
said.
He said he hoped the event would help his people better understand their culture
and introduce to them the traditions of other tribes.
Dalay’s film, Losing Sea Horizon, portrays the Amis tribe’s relationship with
the ocean.
The event comes on the back of the success of Warriors of Rainbow: Seediq Bale
by Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖). The film depicts the Wushe Incident
(霧社事件), in which Mona Rudao of the Sediq led a revolt against the Japanese in
the 1930s.
The screenings are scheduled to be held today at Wanrong village, Wanrong
Township (萬榮) in Hualien County; on Nov. 19 in Nanao Township (南澳), Yilan
County; on Nov. 20 in the Chenggong (成功) district of Greater Taitung; on Nov. 24
in Sinyi Township (信義), Nantou County; on Nov. 26 in the Liouguei (六龜) district
of Greater Kaohsiung; on Nov. 27 in Taiwu Township (泰武), Pingtung County; on
Dec. 3 in Houlong Township (後龍), Miaoli County; and on Dec. 4 in Sijhih (汐止),
New Taipei City (新北市).
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