Short film
PARADE PROTEST
2023 · 9 min
A quiet, cerebral essay film that juxtaposes archival fragments with modern protest, asking you to ponder power and truth.
- Directed by
- Chris Chong Chan Fui
- Overview
- PARADE PROTEST compares a 1930 Taiwanese film outtake of a procession during Japanese colonial rule to the 2014 Taiwanese student protests against pro- China economic policies. The diptych traverses across varying truths in audio-visual documentation between the past and the present by offering a nuanced understanding of power and self-determination on the island of Taiwan.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense and melancholic. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Politics, power, identity, colonialism
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Chris Chong Chan Fui