Destroyed Statues, a Bolex 16 mm Camera, and an Old Jeep: The Traces of History in FLAT TYRE

Abstract

The article explores the images of the statues captured in FLAT TYRE, in particular focuses on the meta-perspective presented by the director Ming-Chuan Huang, reflects on the creation of the images, and analyses how the film interprets the history of Taiwan with the statues as “historical traces” for the reconstruction of the history.

Keywords

• political statue
• religious statue
• documentarian
• meta-perspective
• ruin
• post-martial law
• taiwan
• huang ming-chuan
• flat tyre