A Letter to A'ma

Overview

An art teacher returns to her childhood home to mourn the passing of her grandmother. As she pieces together the fragmented memories of her youth she finds herself coming face-to-face with the problematic issue of her country’s fractured history. Through an artistic duty that this teacher gives to students, a performance art process that has lasted for more than 10 years, a representational portrait of the island’s collective memory begins to emerge; and in so doing, these young artists have initiated a process by which Taiwan, an island forgotten by the world and in the midst of forgetting itself, can now remember itself and construct a new postcolonial identity through art.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 18, 2021

Original language

Chinese

Spoken languages

Japanese, Portuguese

Countries

Taiwan

Production

A Deer Film Production

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt23751786