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Chang Chao-Tang 張照堂
The Boat Burning Festival 王船祭典
1979
Shot by Chang Chao-Tang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, The Boat Burning Festival captures the ceremony worshipping Wangye, the local god of plague, held every three years in Sucuo Village in Tainan, 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.
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