The Boat-Burning Festival
197920m
Documentary
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- Taiwan
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Chang Chao-Tang
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Aug 15, 1979
If you like this
Seduced and Abandoned
20136.2
Naqoyqatsi
20026.2
To Kill a Tiger
20237.6
Sherman's March
19866.3
A Toxic Love Story
20266.4
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
20087.3
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
20196.5
McQueen
20187.4
Trainwreck: The Real Project X
20255.9
Being James Bond
20217.8
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
20007.8
Fuck
20066.4
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
20196.2
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
20236.1
Hell House
20016.3
I Want to Return Return Return
20206.7
Heart of a Dog
20156.5
Come See Me in the Good Light
20257.1
Deliver Us from Evil
20067.2
Making Squid Game: The Challenge
20238.0