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The Return of Gods and Ancestors

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The Return of Gods and Ancestors

Price: $295.00
Secondary Title: : The Five Year Ceremony
Filmmaker Name: Hu Tai-Li
Film Length: 35 min
Film Year: 1985
Duration: 21-45 min
Decade: 1980s
Color: color
Region: Asia
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The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. 

During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. 

The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.

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