Film
The Boat-Burning Festival
1979 · 20m · Documentary
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Overview
Shot by Chang Chao-Tang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, The Boat Burning Festival captures the ceremony worshipping Wangye（王爺）, the local god of plague, held every three years in Sucuo Village（蘇厝） in Tainan（台南）, Taiwan. Chang timed the work to "Ommadawn", a Celtic-inspired progressive rock album by Mike Oldfield. Defying genre conventions and deviating stylistically from television or ethnographic documentary, the film testifies to the tense and complex coexistence of traditional rites, local folklore, and discourses about modernisation and identity in 1970s Taiwan.
Crew
- Chang Chao-TangDirector
Media
Details
- Release date
- August 15, 1979
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
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