Wan Jen
6 titles · taiwanese new wave
Taiwanese New Wave founder whose subject is political memory — the White Terror, emigration, and what a society agrees to forget. Less internationally visible than his contemporaries, and the films are correspondingly hard to find.
Signature
- Post-authoritarian reckoning treated directly rather than allegorically.
- Emigration and return as the structuring movement.
- Realist register; the politics carried by ordinary domestic detail.
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