Voices from the Periphery

Bloodstained Youth (Hsiao Chu-chen, 1998): In the cold-blooded political persecution in Taiwan of the 1950s, many were killed on the execution ground and still more were incarcerated for a seeming eternity on the Green Isle. Addressing in vivid detail their stories, unleashed after the lifting of martial law, this film weaves oral and written accounts, photographs, and recent film footage about Taiwan's McCarthyist witchhunt, "The White Terror." (49 mins, Video)Every Odd-Numbered Day (Tung Chen-Liang, 1995): When the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Kinmen became its front line against the Communists on the mainland. Caught in the battleground where animosities between the two sides are exchanged and negotiated, Kinmen has since endured over 970,000 bombs, hurled over from the Communists on every odd-numbered day. In the spirit of self-reliance, this award-winning production is directed and re-enacted by Kinmen islanders. It recounts lyrically their homeland's experience of war and life after it became the Berlin Wall of the Taiwan Straits. (78 mins, 16mm)

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