Looking for Siraya

Li-Ming Cheng

Taïwan / 2013 / Documentaire, Expérimental / 28’37”I1501733

Looking for Siraya
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SYNOPSIS

[EN] In 1871 the photographer John Thomson came to Formosa to take photos which became the first images of the island seen in the West. Things have changed after more than a century. I chose one of his photos showing an indigenous mother and her child shot in Mucha, Kaohsiung, as a starting point.

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