Just north of Taipei Main Station, a black mannequin stands in an open plaza. Emerging from torrents of white medicine bottles, the mannequin wears sheets of white plastic threads that cling to its body like a second skin...
Detention, the film adaptation of the surprise indie horror video game hit of the same name, proves an unusual candidate to engage with the history of Taiwan’s White Terror...
Weathering With You is a story of working-class teenagers as victims and agents of environmental transformation. It is a beautiful piece of magical realism, where fish swim into the air, suspending reality for moments of humanity. It is also a deeply radical film...
The China Film Administration announced yesterday that it was banning participation by members of the Chinese film industry in this year’s Golden Horse Awards...
Valerie Soe's Love Boat: Taiwan details the history of an institution well-known among diasporic Taiwanese and particularly Taiwanese-Americans—the Love Boat, officially known as the Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour. Despite how widely known the program is, Love Boat: Taiwan is likely the first attempt to historically document the program...
Ho Ming-sho's Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement proves a significant English monograph comparing and contrasting the Sunflower Movement and Umbrella Movement...
Youth for Tsai, an all-volunteer youth campaign recently formed by a group of university students hoping to take action to protect Taiwan amidst the growing influence from China on interfering with Taiwan domestic politics, was present in numbers at the 2019 Presidential Office Concert on Saturday. Their actions and the concert itself are indicative of progressive politics for Taiwanese young people today...
The Edge of Night proves a deft, enthralling depiction of a crucial moment in the Sunflower Movement—the attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan that took place on the night of March 23rd and in the early morning hours of March 24th, 2014...
