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About the Film

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《小島春風》從一張家庭餐桌開始。

那是一場關於我外甥在美國求學時，
對自身台灣身分認同感到困惑與委屈的對話。

那頓飯沒有什麼特別的儀式。
只是很日常的一餐。
但那場對話，慢慢打開了跨世代的歷史痕跡。

它讓我開始思考：
我們這一代如何學會對身分做出某種妥協，
而上一代如何在外來政權統治下，學會在恐懼中生活。

我的家庭並不是直接受害者家族。
但在成長過程中，許多矛盾與不合理之處，
並沒有被明確說出來。

它們更像是在日常生活中，被慢慢接受、正常化，
最後成為不需要被解釋的現實。

語言也在這個過程中慢慢失落。
有些東西不是被禁止說出口，
而是我們慢慢失去了描述它們的語言。

這部片想理解的，不只是歷史事件本身，
而是歷史如何透過語言、教育、家庭互動與社會氛圍，
安靜地存在於日常生活之中。

我也希望這部片能觸及那些對語言、文化或歷史感到失落的人，
特別是對台灣歷史不熟悉的人，
也能透過語言感受到記憶與情感的重量。

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Spring Breeze, Taiwan begins at a family dinner table.

It begins with a conversation about my nephew — his confusion, and the quiet hurt he felt around Taiwanese identity while studying in the United States. There was nothing dramatic about that dinner. It was ordinary.

But the conversation slowly opened into something much larger — intergenerational traces of history. It made me reflect on how my generation learned to negotiate parts of identity, and how the generation before us learned to live under fear and political control imposed by an external regime.

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My family is not a direct victim family. But growing up, many contradictions were never openly questioned. They were absorbed into daily life. Normalized.

Eventually becoming realities that no longer required explanation. Language changed along with this process. Some things were not forbidden to speak — we simply lost the language to name them. The film is not only about historical events. It is about how history continues to live through language, education, family relationships, and social atmosphere.

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I hope the film can also reach viewers who feel the loss of language, culture, or history — especially those unfamiliar with Taiwan’s past — and allow them to feel the emotional memory carried within language.

台紀錄片導演挖掘創傷 「小島春風」尋根 (中文報導​)

Review: WEAVING AND SPRING BREEZE, TAIWAN