ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how women documentarians' cutting-edge approaches open up new dimensions of thinking about the subjectivity. It analyzes two documentary films to illustrate the vibrancy of women's documentary filmmaking in Taiwan and its social and ethical significance. The chapter demonstrates how Taiwan women filmmakers' intervention helps enrich our understanding of the complex issue of subjectivity in an indigenous as well as global context. Si-Manirei's And Deliver Us from the Evil is a film shot on Orchid Island an island off the southeastern coast of Taiwan with small population of about 3,000 indigenous Tau people. The film shows how she uses documentary films to promote nursing care for the elderly and the sick who live separately from their families in compliance with traditional indigenous taboo. The three women documentarians Hu Tai-li, Chien Wei-ssu and Kuo Chen-ti who contributed to articulating, in distinctive ways, the voice and vision of new Taiwan documentary.
