The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay
2019 | sound | color | super 8 to HD | 10:57
Shot on location in the traditional Amis territory, The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay travels through villages on the east coast of Taiwan, where nature, colonization and population migration merge to create a unique spiritual landscape. The hand processed super 8 unravels mixed faith expressions from Daoist ritual possession to Presbyterian funeral, from personal prayers to collective resistance, all the while attempting to trace the memories of past Amis sorcerers.
Stories & narration by Rara Dongi
Co-produced & sound design by Oliver Lewis
Distribution by La Distributrice de films, serge@ladistributrice.ca
2025 Taiwanese Experimental Film and Video series, curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, LA Film Forum & San Francisco Cinematheque, US
2025 Media and Mind Control, curated by Piper Marshall and Kolja Gläser, Cinema Bellevue, Gstaad, Swiss
2024 la lumière collective, Montreal, Canada
2024 grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Videoex, curated by Sam I-Shan, Zurich, Switzerland
2022 7e Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie, Percé, Canada
2021 Spellbound - Witch Institute Conference, curated by Geneviève Wallen, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, Canada
2020 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2020 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2020 TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Canada
2020 True/False Film Festival, Columbia, US
2019 Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, Canada
2019 GAX Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2019 The Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK
2019 Leiden International Short Film Experience, Leiden, Netherlands
2019 31 Filmfest Dresden, Experiments, Dresden, Germany
2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, Germany
