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:Letter #69

Schedule: 04 August, 16:00, DokuKino

:Letter #69

Taiwan, 2016, 19 min

Letter #69 is a reinterpretation of the prison letters by SHI Shui-huan, a victim of Taiwan’s White Terror. She wrote 69 letters to her family before was executed. The filmmaker attempts to highlight the blankness of SHI’s last letter, describing the unseen history of that period.

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LIN Hsin-i is experienced in independent documentary and visual art production. In recent years, she engages herself in a creative project of action images based on artists that film artists.
Visions du Réel 2017. Kaohsiung FF 2016. BISFF Busan 2016. Women Make Waves FF 2016.
TFI-Taiwan Docs
TFI. 2F-6, No.7,
Ching-tao East Road,
Taipei City 10051, Taiwan
+886-2-2392-4243
taiwandocs@mail.tfi.org.tw
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