Rediscovering and rewriting film history: Archival interventions at the Taiwan film and audiovisual institute
Key information
- Date
- Time
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10:15 am to 12:45 pm
- Venue
- Senate House (Paul Webley Wing)
- Room
- SWLT
About this event
In the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to welcome Dr Chun-Chi Wang to reflect on her experience curating, restoring, and reinterpreting Taiwanese cinema at the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.
This talk introduces a series of recent projects by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute that reopen questions about how restoration and programming can recontextualize preserved materials, including marginalized films, state-sponsored propaganda, and early Taiwanese-language cinema. It explores how these interventions challenge dominant historical narratives and suggest new ways of understanding what constitutes cinematic value and significance.
In doing so, the talk argues that the archive can function not merely as a site of preservation, but as a dynamic space of critical reinterpretation, historiographic intervention, and cultural reorientation.
Image credit: Etienne Girardet via Unsplash
Meet our speaker
Chun-Chi Wang
Chun-Chi is an associate professor in the Department of Filmmaking at the National Taipei University of the Arts. She previously served as chief executive officer of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and was chairperson of both the Taiwan Women’s Film Association and the Women Make Waves Film Festival.
Her research has been published in both Chinese and English in academic journals such as The Journal of Chinese Cinemas and The Journal of Art Studies, as well as in edited volumes including Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema and The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies.
