Finding Salt (1999)

Directed by

Lungnan Isak Fangas

Genre

documentary film

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a university club of indigenous students in Taiwan as they welcome new members. It shows them learning their traditional language and culture while facing clashes with mainstream society, highlighting their struggles with identity and feeling disconnected from their own heritage.

observationalreflectiveintrospectivebittersweetearnestgentlegroundedthoughtful

What happens

《尋找鹽巴》（英語：Finding Salt）是由台灣導演龍男·以撒克·凡亞思執導拍攝的一部紀錄片，獲得第一屆原住民紀錄片比賽佳作。 本片紀錄導演就學時，所屬的臺灣大學原住民學生社團「原聲帶」的新學期迎新儀式，在過程中社員們努力學習傳統語言與文化、以及意圖建構「部落」，卻發生許多與主流文化的衝突，這些「都市原住民」大多因成長環境因素，對於自身部落及文化不熟悉，語言一直是他們的尷尬和痛。 自導演第一部作品《回來就好》，探討「家」的意義，接著本片《尋找鹽巴》則是講述原住民青年對自我身份的意義建構，「尋找一個家（認同）」一直是龍男導演在創作過程中不斷在探尋的課題。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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