Film Screening | A Letter to A'ma 給阿媽的一封信

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Australian Centre on China in the World

Exhilaratingly photographed, A Letter to A'ma is a brilliant and deeply felt exploration of Taiwan's complicated and often traumatic past.

ANU Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)

2023 ANU Taiwan Update

In the 2023 ANU Taiwan Update, scholars and commentators grapple with the place of Taiwan in the world, how the Taiwanese government, media, and people deal with China's actions, the internal challenges  and what lies ahead.

Chen Hui-Ling’s A Letter to A’ma is a brilliant and deeply felt exploration of Taiwan’s complicated and often traumatic past. Exhilaratingly photographed, the documentary focusses on a series of encounters between school and university art students and their grandparents. The students—it would appear—are often hearing stories about their grandparent’s lives for the first time. The way the student process these shocking, or confusing, or confounding recollections are reflected in the art they produce. A Letter to A’ma is a profound and moving meditation on connections between generations, on the unearthing of history, and on the vital importance of individual experience.Awards:Best Documentary and Best Music, Les Rimbaud du Cinéma 2021Best Documentary, Best Music and Best Photography, Festival International du Film Indépendant SMR13Hui-Ling Chen was a plastic art teacher in high school and left her post to study cinema in France. After studying cinema, she returned to Taiwan to found the educational project: “The collective memory of the island”, while filming the documentary A Letter to A’ma. She has cooperated with many schools across Taiwan to guide young people to express their own story artistically. The film testifies to the achievements over the ten years of the project. In 2018, she won an award from the Ministry of Education for her contribution to artistic education for the younger generation.<a href="https://ciw-prod.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/2023%20ANU%20Taiwan%20Update%20Program.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D﻿OWNLOAD </a>2023 ANU Taiwan Update ProgramT﻿he ANU Taiwan Update is an initiative under the ANU Taiwan Studies Program 2022-25, which a partnership between the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan).

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