Flowers of Taiwan
Taiwan has been one of the main cultural, geopolitical, and economic meeting points in the Far East for centuries. With three days of screenings, Flowers of Taiwan is a sort of journey, a recon from cinema to video art: protagonists of the festival are the works of Taiwanese directors and video artists in an emotional trip between cultural syncretism, identity and tradition.
Flowers of Taiwan I
From the classics of the Taiwanese contemporary cinema of the master Tsai Ming Liang, to the movies of the new generation of filmmakers, until nowadays with the video artists born in the digital era such as Yin Ju Chen, Chia-Wei Hsu, Yu-Chin Tseng, and Chia-En Jao. The story of a country and its fascinating “flowering” of moving images. The 2019 edition took place at MAXXI - National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
Flowers of Taiwan II
The second edition of Flowers of Taiwan represented the history of taiwanese film from the 60s to today and it took palce at the Cinema Farnese in Rome.
Flowers of Taiwan III
Video documentaries were the heart of the Green Team Movement, a militant collective active between 1986 and 1990. This collective brilliantly combined grassroots political activism and virality, countering fake news and deviant pro-government mainstream narratives. Their efforts were particularly significant during a crucial sociopolitical and cultural transition for the island.
Parallel to the growth of social movements, 57 directors in Taipei signed the 'manifesto of the new Taiwanese cinema,' a revolutionary document that sparked an artistic renaissance. Among them are Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang, who mark a point of no return in the artistic reworking of the island's most recent history. The 2021 edition took place at MAXXI—National Musuem of Contemporary Art in Rome.