Film and Television

Before Netflix: The Hidden History of Taiwan’s Television Renaissance

Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
Taiwanese television has entered a remarkable period of creative success. During the past decade, dramas such as The World Between Us (我們與惡的距離), Gold Leaf (茶金), Light the Night (華燈初上), Copycat Killer (模仿犯), Wave Makers (造浪者：人選之人) and Imperfect Us (不夠善良的我們) have attracted critical acclaim at home while reaching audiences around the world through international festivals and global streaming platforms. They have demonstrated that a relatively small television industry can produce sophisticated, ambitious stories that resonate far beyond its domestic market...
Arts and CultureAugust 2026EnglishFilm and TelevisionPolitics10 min read

See More Short Films!: New Voices in Taiwanese Short Film at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Michelle Chow
Last month, Taipei’s SPOT-Huashan theater was home to the Women Make Waves International Film Festival. First held in 1993, the Women Make Waves festival has now completed its 31st edition–about the same age as Lumi. Over the course of ten days, the festival showed more than a hundred screenings, organized by the Taiwan Women’s Film Association around the theme of “Spacing.” Interpreted by the festival’s chairperson Joyce Tang as 缝隙 (gap, or fissure), this theme was explored with breadth and nuance through the curatorial team’s selection of films, which sounded the complex terrains of war, work, sex, gender, and national identity...
Arts and CultureEnglishFilm and TelevisionNovember 202411 min read

Review: Memories to Choke on, Drinks to Wash Them Down (夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗)

Brian Hioe
Memories to Choke on, Drinks to Wash Them Down, directed by Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly, stands out for its ability to evocatively conjure up the quotidian realities of Hong Kong. In many ways, the film, consisting of three shorts depicting everyday dramas set in Hong Kong and one documentary segment, proves a highly poetic one—a snapshot of Hong Kong as it is today, as well as a Hong Kong that may not last...
Arts and CultureEnglishFilm and TelevisionNovember 20205 min read

展覽評論：布列松在中國

Enbion Micah Aan
理查德·埃夫頓（Richard Avedon）說：「擁有五張出色照片的職業生涯是相當不錯的……［亨利·卡蒂埃·布列松］（Henri Cartier-Bresson）有數百張！」 這麼強力的宣稱並不誇張，因為布列松絕對是他那代最偉大的攝影師之一，也是 20 世紀偉大藝術家之一。 走進台北市立美術館的畫廊，參觀大師的作品，是非常特別的經驗。...
Arts and CultureEnglishFilm and Television2 min read