Manfei (Taiwan, 2017)
Compared to the rebellious, anxious tone and radical narratives of Mainland China’s younger generation documentarians, Taiwanese filmmakers have inherited the constant filmic style tradition of...
Zinnia Flower (Taiwan, 2015) [Chinese Visual Festival 2016]
Exquisitely crafted yet emotionally turbulent, Zinnia Flower is a sincere meditation on loss that bravely denies its audience the expected catharsis to instead acknowledge the fact...
Thanatos, Drunk (Taiwan, 2015) [Chinese Visual Festival 2016]
Thanatos, Drunk is the sort of film that divides the audience. Helmed by Chang Tso-chi, one of Taiwan’s most promising (and controversial) auteurs, Thanatos, Drunk,...
Call for Papers: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Special Issue on Taiwaneseness in Contemporary Popular Culture)
The end of the martial law ushered in an intensified process of “Taiwanization” in many social and cultural fields, and Taiwanese identity has arguably become...
Parking (Taiwan, 2008)
It is Mother’s Day in Taiwan and the nominal hero of Parking – upwardly mobile professional Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) – is having a particularly eventful...
Three Times (Taiwan, 2005)
The films of the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien have dealt alternately with the tumultuous periods of Taiwan’s past and the pressing problems of its present,...