| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 53 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Anita Chang in 2005. |
| Summary |
62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between reworks the documentary form with its own set of expectations, while investigating historical, social and political phenomena via the personal. This film specifically examines how a postcolonial people negotiate the memory and translation essential to the reconstruction and ultimately reclamation of a personal and national history. Translation and memory are the means by which we construct the past, yet both of these are delicate. For example, while emphasizing testimonials in light of an official history, I use images of contemporary Taiwan, instead of archival footage -; reflecting how a postcolonial people can sometimes only reimagine their past. Finally, in the telling of this history perhaps the film will spark dialogue about the nonfiction canon that is deeply driven by our desire to represent history - revisted or as a moment in time; a memory - however vivid or fleeting; and truth - whether perceived or felt. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Indexed Term |
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
| Added Author |
Chang, Anita, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1138433 Kanopy |
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