Category: FilmAsia2016

From the Nightmarish to a Dreamy State of Being: The Troubling Present in Thai Independent Cinema after the Coups D’État 2014
From ApichatpongWeerasethakul’s debut film, Mysterious Objects at Noon, to Blissfully Yours and on to Tropical Malady, the subjects, forms, and …

From” Morning Sun” to” Though I Was Dead”: The Image of Song Binbin in the “August Fifth Incident”
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.On August 5, 1966, Bian Zhongyun, …

Multi-Layered Structure of Documentary Narration and the Blurring Lines
“Reality” has always been on the focus within the documentary narration and in order to come closer to reality, search …

Origin, Transformation and Era Significance of the Traditional Photography Studio of Taiwan: A Documentary Study of the John Photography Studio
The first landscape photograph of Taiwan might be taken by Saint-Julien Edwards in 1865. In the early 1870s, Rev. Dr. …

The Perspective of a Student Film: Using Experimental Techniques to Edit Frames in a Repeated Array
This article discusses a story of heartbreak, produced from the perspective of a student film, inspired by philosopher Barthes Rolands …

The Off-Screen Space and the Silent Fragments in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films
This paper discusses two major films by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood (1962) and Andrei Rublev (1966). Both …