It is the pleasure of Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York to announce that the screening of the documentary Returning Souls, directed by Taiwan’s documentary worker Hu Tai-li will take place at 4pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University and Taiwan Academy, the event will be accompanied by violin performance by Joseph Lin of a work composed by Shih-Hui Chen and followed by a Q&A session with the director.
Returning Souls touches upon the eternal theme of human being--home-coming. Forty years ago, the most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan was destroyed by a typhoon. Recently, young villagers challenged the elder tribal members and village representatives to begin reconstructing the house and to bring back the souls of their ancestors.
Time and Venue:
Thursday, March 28, 2013 / 4:00 PM (Free admission)
Columbia University, Morningside Heights campus
Davis Auditorium
The Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research
500 West 120th Street, Room 412
New York, NY 10025
Transit: 1 train to 116 Street/Columbia University
WEBSITE: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/returningsouls/
REGISTER: http://returningsouls-es2005.eventbrite.com/#