Remembrance of an Island | Markgrafenstraße 35, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Date:4/24 18:00~20:30
Location:Taipeh Vertretung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland（ Markgrafenstraße 35, 10117 Berlin, Germany）
Through the narration and memories of an old photographer, the film returns to Green Island, revisiting the shattered life in a concentration camp ground down by time. It bears witness to fifteen years of island life and the resilience of the human spirit. How does one resist forgetting? As each vivid photograph from the past is brought into view, waves of complex and conflicting emotions emerge in the face of historical events and personal experiences. When an entire era chooses to forget, he alone walks the path—silently and steadfastly—through the unbearable history and memories of the past.
Films screened
Remembrance of an Island
Through the spoken recollections of an elderly photographer, the film returns to Green Island and to the prison-camp life that time has broken apart, holding on to fifteen years on the island and to the will to live. How is a person to resist forgetting? As he looks at one old photograph after another, each still vivid, facing both the historical events and his own experience, complex and contradictory feelings keep rising. When an entire era chooses to forget, he walks alone through a history and a memory that are hard to bear.