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Sisyphus : Formosa 薛西佛斯之福爾摩莎

Sisyphus : Formosa薛西佛斯之福爾摩莎

Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2004
duration /
62'00

全片以1980-1985年代出生的人物訪談,671份問卷量化的視覺呈現,以及描述作者心態轉變的動畫交疊混雜。鏡頭似乎在進行一場無止盡的挖掘。導演剛開始什麼都不知道,什麼也不懂,發現自己對於歷史、政治、社會問題的無知,又爲什麼國家認同問題在上一代炒得沸沸揚揚,年輕的這一代卻幾乎不聞不問?作者企圖在身邊尋找答案。台灣化、中國化、與西方勢力的角力拉扯,國家、族群、政黨的認同矛盾重疊……想要製造台灣的正義,卻看不見真相。什麼中國?什麼台灣?什麼mainland大陸?作者漸漸了解,卻又更加困惑。

This documentary is all about nationality, race, identity, trust, culture, and media contact between Taiwan and China, and the chaotic mind-changing of the author during the shooting. The team interviewed some young people who were born in the early 80’s, and conducted various questionnaires in order to find out how the new generation in Taiwan is thinking about this ambiguous political situation, and even how they think it should he solved. The most important and remaining question is about to be answered… or will it?

about the artist /

Born in 1982, graduated from the Department of Radio, Television and Film, Shih-Hsin Universit, Kuo Shu-feng was unfamiliar with politics and had no ideas about national identity in the past. In 2022, after working as a project assistant for the 2022 TIDF International Documentary Biennale “Goodbye to the Passionate Age of Taiwan”. she had some contact with film directors who made documentaries for activists participating in social reformations in the 1970s and 80s. New thinking then emerged to impact the conventional thoughts that she used to prossess. Since Kuo studied in a film-related department, In 2003, she began to choot his first work, a documentary about national identities in Taiwan: “Sisyphus: Formosa.” At present, the director has not been engaged in filming for many years, and has opened a bakery shop in the countryside of Yilan, which is delicated to using Taiwanese local ingredients.

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