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Amid the neon lights and ethnic food, the prostitutes and their aging female pimps, dwells the Longshan Temple, one of the oldest religious sites in Taipei and an architectural blend of the ornate, the garish and the traditional. All kinds of people gather in its precincts: pious middle-aged women i...(Read more)
Amid the neon lights and ethnic food, the prostitutes and their aging female pimps, dwells the Longshan Temple, one of the oldest religious sites in Taipei and an architectural blend of the ornate, the garish and the traditional. All kinds of people gather in its precincts: pious middle-aged women intently throwing fortune-telling tablets, elderly men taking a nap, beggars, flower sellers, and the tourists with their cameras ready. Through its impressive black-and-white cinematography, this film captures both the seediness and the serene silence of the temple, presenting realist and experimental images in a frantic collage that reflects the golden, slightly frayed soul of this proletariat’s Utopia.
DVD source：Taiwan Cinema Toolkit, Ministry of Culture, R.O.C.
| Chinese title： | 指月記 |
| Year： | 2002 |
| Director： | HUANG Ting-Fu |
| Duration： | 45min |
| Length： | Short |
| Category： | Documentary |
| Theme： | Society |
| Color： | B & W |
| Format： | DVD |
| Sound： | Stereo |
| Language： | Taiwanese |
| Subtitle： | No subtitles |
| Producer： | CHEN Li-Yu |
Camera： |
HUANG Ting-Fu |
| Editor： | ZHANG Shu-Wa |
| Music： | Dino LIAO |
| Excluded for public screenings： | Licensed to all regions except: Taiwan, China (not including Hong Kong, Macau) |
| Royalty period： | 2015-2017 |
| Licensing contact： | This license for non-profit screenings has expired in 2017. |
| Festival list： | 2002 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, International Competition 2003 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2003 Taipei Film Awards, Best Audio Design 2003 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, “New Asian Currents” Competition 2003 Golden Horse Awards, nominated for Best Documentary |
