Despite a limited budget and opportunities, Taiwan's independent filmmakers are never tired of finding new ways to show their works.
Vision Kinmen Film Festival (一種凝視 -- 金門影展) is one of the more novel ideas among all the mini film festivals in this season. Starting yesterday and continuing to Sunday, the festival will screen 12 films at bomb shelters in the war-zone island of Kinmen. Several other bomb shelters and tunnels will be used to display installation art works and a photo exhibition.
Tung Chen-liang (
PHOTO COURTESY OF FIREFLY IMAGE COMPANY
His independent outfit, Firefly Image Company (
But the most unusual showing, perhaps, is the photo exhibition of Tung's photography works, called Liberation War Zones (解放戰地).
In his pictures, nude women models pose different locations symbolic of war in Kinmen, such as the shelters, in front of tanks, or under a big red flag.
These sensational pictures will be displayed in a specially decorated bomb shelter called Hole 831 (
After the Kinmen screenings, the festival will go to Hsinchu's Image Museum from Sept 24 to Sept 28, and after that, at Taipei's Huashan Arts District from Oct. 6 to Oct. 12.
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