Yushan Huang (on
the left)
KAOHSIUNG FILM ARCHIVE
Huang Yu-shan was born in Penghu
and grew up in Kaohsiung. In 1988, she began to direct films advocating
feminism with females as leading roles and feminist issues as material.
She is now an assistant professor in the Institute of Sound and Image Studies,
Tainan National University of the Arts. Her research fields are motion
picture editing and directing, independent film production, feminist films,
documentaries and film criticism.
http://w4.kcg.gov.tw/~kmfa1/templates/en/sonthern/south.htm#015
Autumn Tempest (or: Cave of Desire)
Autumn Tempest (or: Cave of Desire)
Autumn Tempest (or: Cave of Desire)
Poster for Twin Bracelets
The two girls are attached to each other in Twin Bracelets.
The one succumbs to convention and a rough marriage;
the other is opting for suicide as her way of revolt.
The Strait Story
The Strait Story
Ye-Ye (South Night)
Ye Ye (South Night)
Huang Yu-shan, the director of "Ye ye" (South Night),
with 3 actors starring in this movie
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Autumn Tempest - 1987
(1988)
(feature film) - Alternative title: Cave of Desire,
color, 87 min.
Backup copy (English
/ Chinese)
http://cmpctw.pixnet.net/blog/31
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copy)
Peony Birds (feature film)
- 1990, color, 35mm, 105 min. (starring
Vivian Chen etc.)
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26423334
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copy
“Like Edward Yang, Wan Jen or Tseng Chuanghsiang, a number of people
active in the film industry studied or lived in the USA. This is particularly
true of women – such as the powerful critic Peggy Chiao, Wang Shau-di,
the feminist director Huang Yu-shan (The Peony Birds / Mu dan niao,
1990) [her name is spelled Huang Yu-chang in
E.L. Davis’ encyclopedia]; or the independent filmmaker Chen Jo-Fei.”
Edward Lawrence Davis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese
Culture, Abingdon, Oxon., UK (Routledge) 2005, p.149
Twin Bracelets (feature film)
- (1990) 1991, color, 103 min. /
100min. / 99 min. [another version?] (starring
Vivian Chen, Winnie Lau etc.)
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26423270
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"A young woman in an oppressive Chinese fishing
village seeks love and escape in the arms of her childhood girlfriend against
a backdrop of customs and mores that treat women as property with no human
rights.
In a remote fishing village, two girls, best
friends, struggle to remain committed to their declaration of love in their
tradition-bound society. A moving, ultimately tragic film, Twin Bracelets
is remarkable for its portrayal of an independent woman's commitment to
her love.
Yushan Huang, the director of Twin Bracelets,
is perhaps one of the most under rated directors in Chinese cinema. In
festival screenings worldwide, Twin Bracelets was an audience favorite."
http://www.chinesetapes.com/movie_chinese/twin_bracelets.html
Andrew Gossman, "Better Beauty
Through Technology: Chinese Transnational Feminism and the Cinema of Suffering",
in: Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 35, Jan. 2002
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/35/chinesefeminism1.php
Gossman - (backup
copy)
“[…] Other films displace lesbianism as a contemporary
issue onto characters abused by patriarchal excess in the past,
for example, Wang Jin's Women Flowers (1994),
Jacob Cheung's Intimates (1997), and Huang Yu-shan's Twin Bracelets (1992).”
[From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese
Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997,
by Gina Marchetti - 2006. 302 pages]
The Petrel Returns (Documentary)
- 1997, 16mm, 63 min.
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26426716
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text
Spring Cactus (feature film)
- 1998 [1999], color, 35mm, 105 min.
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26421431
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2
Lai Shen-chon, The
Strait Story [2005] (Chinese
text)
The Strait Story (feature
film) - 2005, color, 35mm, 105min.
http://movie.mtime.com/49095/
The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese rule as a colony. After
finishing his studies in Japan, the famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter
Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach at the Beijing Art School.
He decides to visit friends and his family back home before leaving for
China. While returning on board the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru"
with his girlfriend, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine
and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a
fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings
in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about
the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates
the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the
ways the artist painted his girlfriend. Restoring Huang's painting becomes
Shou-shou's way of restoring herself.
( http://films-for-africa.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=38
)
The Strait Story / alternative
title:
Portrait of Restoring Light
The Song of Chatian Mountain
(feature film), 2007, color, 107 min.
winelands.film.festival.archives:
the.song.of.chatian.mountain
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The Forgotten: Reflections
on Eastern Pond
(documentary) - 2008
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26427697
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The Forgotten: Reflections on Eastern Pond
This documentary intends
to explore the historical incident of the "Takachiho Maru " shipwreck in
1943. This film presents the facts and feelings in order to get at the
truth and reveal a part of history which has been buried for so many years.
Survivors of the ship have been interviewed, and history recreated in the
form of a docudrama. Also presented: the story of Mr. Huang
Ching-cheng, renowned Taiwan sculptor, who died on the ship at the age
of 31. Aspects of documents and reconstructed scenes are also included.
South Night (feature film)
- 2008, color, 80 min
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A woman from a foreign place buries her secrets
in
smoke and shadows. A girl trussed by routine
has
trouble seeing herself. A bored man is trying
his best
to keep himself going.
One night, she walks into their view. One
night, she
searches and he sings. One night, among these
three
lonely souls – one wanting to leaving, one
having just
left, and one to whom leaving does not matter
– they
see each other in the haze of the city’s bright
lights
and maybe, just maybe, they even see themselves.
Filming
Taiwan Alternatively
A Study of the Boundaries Blurred by the Cinematic
Representation
in "Floating Islands"
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