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The Boat-Burning Festival


The Boat-Burning Festival

The Boat-Burning Festival (1979)

Documentary

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.

Director: Chang Chao-Tang

Release Date: 1979-08-15
Status: Released
Run time: 20 min / 0:20
Production Country: Taiwan

Casts

Crew

Sound Mike Oldfield Music
Crew Christopher Doyle Cinematography
Directing Chang Chao-Tang Director
Crew Chang Chao-Tang Cinematography

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