The Boat-Burning Festival

1979

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: ZH

Production Information

Production Countries

Taiwan

Spoken Languages

No Language

Quick Facts

Original Title	王船祭典
Release Date	August 15, 1979
Status	Released
Language	ZH

Cast

Key Crew

Chang Chao-Tang

Director

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