Farewell 1999
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Farewell 1999is an intensely personal and poetic study of the director’s late mother. In 2003, becoming aware that memories of her mother were fading, the director realized that she only had one short clip of home video recording her mother.She set out to record more. This personal and experimental ...(Read more)
Farewell 1999 is an intensely personal and poetic study of the director’s late mother. In 2003, becoming aware that memories of her mother were fading, the director realized that she only had one short clip of home video recording her mother. She set out to record more. This personal and experimental essay candidly speaks about the difficulty of saying farewell, and shows that the filming process itself is a ritual of mourning and catharsis for the director.
“Once in a dream, I felt that my mother was right there beside me. I woke up crying, staring at the ceiling. I wanted to get back into the dream. If film is the art form that comes closest to dreams, then I want to capture my dreams with my camera.”—Wuna WU
DVD source：Taiwan Cinema Toolkit, Ministry of Culture, R.O.C.
| Chinese title： | 再會吧1999 |
| Year： | 2004 |
| Director： | Wuna WU (WU Tai-Ren) |
| Duration： | 25min |
| Length： | Short |
| Category： | Documentary |
| Theme： | Society |
| Color： | Color |
| Format： | DVD |
| Sound： | Stereo |
| Language： | Mandarin |
| Subtitle： | Chinese, English |
| Producer： | Wuna WU (WU Tai-Ren) |
Camera： |
Wuna WU (WU Tai-Ren), Hoho LIU |
| Editor： | WU Tai-Ren |
| Music： | LUO Son-Ce |
| 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. Email: wunawu@gmail.com |
| Festival list： | 2004 Taipei Film Awards, Grand Prize 2004 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Grand Prize of Taiwan Award 2005 Visions du Réel International Film Festival, Regard Neuf Prize |
