題名: Storyteller, Healer, and Mediator: Si-Marlirei?s Documentary Film?And Deliver Us From Evil(????????????????????????)
作者: ???
貢獻者: ???????
關鍵詞: documentary film;storyteller;healer;mediator;Orchid Island;other;representation
日期: 2008-12-15
上傳時間: 2009-12-10T02:30:38Z 出版者: ??????????
摘要: 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.
