Taiwan Lecture SeriesFilm Screening: Untold herstory (2022), Directed by Zero Chou
- Termin in der Vergangenheit
- Wednesday, 17. July 2024, 18:00
- Institut für Sinologie, Raum 010.01.05, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
Yu Hsing-hui, a high school student who goes by the name Kyoko, is inexplicably sentenced as a thought criminal and sent to Green Island Prison for re-education. Once on the island, she is forced to endure bullying from officers and is snitched on by other prisoners, and we also learn, through nightmarish flashbacks, of her torture and suffering after her arrest and before her arrival on the island. Once there, however, she finds friendlier companions who help her in the struggle for survival, like Chen Ping, a talented dancer who is in a complex relationship with the prison’s Captain Fang, and Yen Shui-Hsia, a communist activist who was a nurse before her imprisonment. Soon after her arrival, the Department launches a movement that spurs a rebellion among the prisoners. The prisoners think their resistance has succeeded, but they are unaware that others are headed to their deaths.
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Set in 1953, this movie is based on a true story, and on actual historical events, as retold in the 2012 book 流麻溝十五號 Liuma gou # 15 by Chang Chang-Mei 張常美, who was just 19 years old when she was arrested and deported to Green Island. As she recalls in the 2012 book, “I didn’t join the [KMT], nor did I join the communist party. I just wanted to get an education. I didn’t care about those things.” While the book and the movie differ in quite a few parts, the movie captures the lives of Taiwanese people during the White Terror, a period usually considered to have begun in 1949 –when martial law was established in Taiwan. For some the White Terror ended in 1987 when martial law was lifted, while others mark its ending in 1992, with the repeal of Article 100 of the Criminal Code that permitted the prosecution of „anti-state“ activities.
About Zero Chou
Zero Chou, one of the few openly lesbian film makers in the world, and even fewer ones in Taiwan, is a prolific director and screen writer who has often depicted in her work the lives and the struggles of LGBTQ persons, as we see in Spider Lilies 刺青 2007, Drifting Flowers 漂浪青 春,2008, Ripples of desire 花漾 2012, The Substitute 替身, 2017, and We are Gamily 偽婚男女, 2017. Some of these movies are part of her six-film series called the Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project 亞洲六城彩虹計劃.
Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series'
This year’s “Taiwan Lecture Series” is devoted to questioning “Sinophone Authenticities” from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic “In Search for Home – Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the Sinophone World”, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home – Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last section on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).