County Road 184

County Road 184 (2001)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2001-01-01
  • Runtime: 0h 55min
  • Language: 普通话
  • Production Company: Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation
  • Production Country: Taiwan
  • Director:

Summary

This film is Taiwan’s first protest music documentary, examining Jiao Gong Band 交工樂隊. Jiao Gong Band initially received attention from their efforts opposing the Meinong Dam project. After a brief pause in the Dam issue, Jiao Gong began following farm and farming issues, with their musical style quickly gaining increased popularity. This film discusses the uneasy situation faced by Taiwan’s farm youth. The youth that sets out to the city seeking to develop themselves carry feelings of homesickness from leaving their farm and land; on returning to their hometown after the bubble economy, they continue to push the elder generation to leave the village. Aside from this, because of their difficult social status, farm youth can often only search for Southeast Asian “foreign brides” when seeking marriage. Within the film, new residents (新住民) discuss their feelings and mindset in moving to Taiwan and collaborate with Jiao Gong throughout the album’s recording process.

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Directing Ho Chao-ti Director
Production Sylvia H. Feng Producer
Crew Yuan Hung-shu Cinematography
Crew Wang Hsing-chung Cinematography
Crew Chen Hsin-lung Cinematography
Crew Chen Chang-wei Cinematography
Crew Liu Huang-wen Cinematography
Crew Ho Chao-ti Cinematography
Editing Wang Hsing-chung Editor
Crew Li Ching-yun Post Production Supervisor
Production Tsuo Pei-hua Executive Producer
Sound Ho Chao-ti Music
Sound Chen Kuan-Yu Sound Mixer
Writing Peng Chiao-ling Script Editor