Migration story: Second Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival.

This article presents information on the Second Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, held in Taipei, Taiwan, from October 3-7, 2003. Each ethnographic film festival has its own special character and flavour, deriving as much from the location and time where it takes place as from how it is organized, the films that are shown and the people who attend. For the second Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival the weather was hot and clammy, the city of Taipei throbbing with life and air conditioners. Films from the four different sections were juxtaposed in the programme in a thought-provoking way, intriguingly bridging disparate times, places, peoples and events. Jean Rouch's classic film, "Moi un Noir," made in the 1950s, and then saw "Experimental Taiwanese," filmed half a century later by Wu Mi-Sen, a young Taiwanese filmmaker. Culture as persuasive performance was apparent in many films, particularly those falling under the migration theme.