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The Return of Gods and Ancestors: Paiwan Five Year Ceremony (1985)
Directed by Hu Tai-Li
Documentary · 35m
The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.
Crew
- Director
- Hu Tai-Li
Details
- Original title
- 神祖之靈歸來：排灣族五年祭
- Release date
- 1985-01-01
- Runtime
- 35m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ZH
- Countries
- Taiwan