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| Title: | Storyteller, Healer, and Mediator: Si-Marlirei?s Documentary Film?And Deliver Us From Evil(????????????????????????) |
| Authors: | ??? |
| Contributors: | ??????? |
| Keywords: | documentary film;storyteller;healer;mediator;Orchid Island;other;representation |
| Date: | 2008-12-15 |
| Issue Date: | 2009-12-10 02:30:38 (UTC+0) |
| Publisher: | ?????????? |
| Abstract: | The emergence of filming documentary in Taiwan constructs the opportunity offered
by filmmakers and culture researchers. According to the developmental progress of
documentary film in Taiwan, aboriginal directors are the last ones who take over the
video camera to tell their own stories for their tribes. Being recorders and mediators of
their own culture, these directors apparently hold a mission of transmitting and informing
the tribal stories and history toward outsiders. They play an essential role of shuttling
between the boundaries of screen-in and screen-out, presentation and representation, and
further more, being a truth recorder and a story teller. The plight of being indigenous
people in Taiwan is they confront a universal problem as the other ones in the rest of the
world?the marginality of existence. Lacking of the resources in basic needs, needless to
say in education and medical, people on Orchid Island are not only out of the center of
main island in Taiwan geographically but also out of the center of every aspect of
supports economically and spiritually. The threat of the environment raises people?s
self-awareness of ?rescuing? themselves. A nurse from township health center,
Si-Marlirei, sees the elderly abandoned as lonely outcast in her tribe, feeling the need to
help and to educate islanders to join the volunteer team. She leads the Home Care Team
to look after these elderly people and films the event by herself. Thus, the concern of the
paper is different from the former discussions of nursing care and the medical system
which is the pivot interest in this film though. Besides the medical concern, there may be
another optimal discussion of this film is the function of making documentary by an
insider, an autoenthnographer. Thus, I will apply the theories of representation and the
studies of other from third world feminist, filmmaker, and anthropologist, Trihn T.
Minh-ha, whose views provide the examination of emergence from marginal voices and
the conflict between cultural hybridization. Starting from her point of view, this paper
will analyze the triple roles that Si-Marlirei plays as a storyteller, a healer and a mediator.
The function of these roles reconcile with the fragment of the representation of other.Hence, And Deliver Us From Evil is a story which may subvert the hegemony of
anthropology documentary making and reconstruct a new meaning of postcolonial study.
Furthermore, the message of conveying the image of other creates a disconnection which
may lead a controversial issue to discuss. |
| Relation: | 2008????????????????????? 12-15~18:20-21 |
| Appears in Collections: | [外國語文學系] 會議論文
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