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The Return of Gods and Ancestors
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Secondary Title:
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: The Five Year Ceremony
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Filmmaker Name:
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Hu Tai-Li
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Film Length:
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35 min
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Film Year:
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1985
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Duration:
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21-45 min
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Decade:
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1980s
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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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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