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Writing The Time Lag

The film is a conclusion of Tzu Tung's years of political experience in both Taiwan and America. The director taking herself as an object in the experiment, joined Taiwan’s legislation procedures, election campaigns, organized indigenous movements, gender movements, and a bilingual press. Under the cover of a political activist, she tries to observe the reason for the political fever and furthered her reflection on modernization and its effect on people’s life.





Eager to answer Taiwan's national-related memories, Tzu-Tung Lee decided to make an experimental documentary on Taiwan politics in 2014. During years of field research, they worked in two Taiwan major parties, organized considerable gender and indigenous movements, attended UN meetings, edited a bilingual political magazine, and even pass into PRC's party members' reunion… to know each aspect of politics. 

The experience sums up the making of <Writing the Time Lag>. It introduced female and queer Indigenous activists who struggled and were suppressed in the process of Taiwan's democratization. The film promotes creative, participatory environments between filmmakers, interviewees, and the audience, as spectatorship often represents the power dynamic between colonizers and colonized communities. Therefore, the interviewees direct the film crew or the shots for their sequences. Subtitles were strategically placed to emphasize the spectatorship, etc.

The video clips collected are being re-edited each year, to reflect and critic upon the change in political narratives over the years, Writing the Time Lag so far has three iterations. Tzu-Tung Lee treated filmmaking as a performative writing process, writing the time lag through the cinema form.

**The film is completed by a female and non-binary-based film crew, and all the 50mm shots are directed or operated by the interviewees.

Exhibition History

2025 Taipei Fine Art Museum

2025 Tap Tap

2025 T



展覽歷史及獎項

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