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《天真的政治》/Politics of Innocent
Film essay|11 mins

20世紀初,隨著殖民地台灣的學制日漸完善,以及兒童文化運動的傳入,「兒童」開始被視為不同於成人的個體。殖民地兒童形象的再現,暗藏了哪些身份認同政治的運作?1920年代末期出生的世代,在經歷日本化、皇民化後,又是如何在戰後在自己的土地上成為他者?透過台灣日治時期的影像檔案、台灣文學作品以及口述歷史,試圖從孩童視角來重建這個已然凋零的世代圖像。

In the early 20th century, as the educational system in colonial Taiwan became more developed and the movement of children's culture was introduced, "children" began to be seen as distinct individuals from adults. The representation of colonial children's images concealed the workings of identity politics. How did the generation born in the late 1920s, after experiencing Japanization and the promotion of loyalty to the Emperor, become the "other" in their own land after the war? Through archival images from the period of Japanese rule in Taiwan, Taiwanese literary works, and oral history, an attempt is made to reconstruct the image of this faded generation from a child's perspective.