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    [EFF17S11] Session 11: Le Moulin

    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF17S11] Session 11: Le Moulin. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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    Wednesday 29 March 2017, 20:30, ICA Cinema

    This film was introduced by Luke Robinson, University of Sussex

    Film: Le Moulin (Ri yao ri shih san pu zhe), Huang Ya-Li, Taiwan, 2016, DCP, 162 minutes, Japanese and Mandarin with English subtitles

    Le Moulin deals with the work of a group of Taiwanese and Japanese intellectuals and poets gathered around Le Moulin Poetry Society and the short-lived magazine Le Moulin [The Windmill] that they founded in 1933, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Strongly influenced by the European avant-garde, and by surrealism, whose principles they followed and adapted, the group developed a refined and seemingly detached aesthetics that went against the prevalent literary social realism of the time, subtly defying the cultural and linguistic hegemony imposed by decades of Japanese rule. The film finds an equivalent to the group’s sensual aesthetics with its richly weaved tapestry of imagery and sounds, readings of texts, photography, calligraphy, music, excerpts of radio broadcasts, and beautiful re-enactments evoking the gestures, objects and voices related to Le Moulin. The film provides a fundamental contribution to understanding the importance of how transcultural intellectual exchanges and global modernism helped to shape counter-discourses under colonial rule in Taiwan in a period of emerging political awareness and dissension.

    With the support of Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture.

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    1 - EFF17S11 introduction (EFF17S11 Le Moulin introduction 29-3-2017.MP3)

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    Dataset Title:

    [EFF17S11] Session 11: Le Moulin
    Creators:

    Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    CollaboratorMcCabe, Janetj.mccabe@bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876
    CollaboratorYapp, Emmaeyapp01@student.bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6066
    Subjects:

    Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Data collection method:

    The Essay Film Festival ran between 2015 and 2023, and presented a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes.
    Collection period:

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    29 March 201729 March 2017
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    All film stills were provided by participating artists.
    Depositing User: Emma Yapp
    Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2026 14:39
    Last Modified: 11 Aug 2026 14:39
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF17S11] Session 11: Le Moulin. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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