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Father ( Taiwan Film in English Subtitles)
May 12 (Sunday)
Time: 2:00 pm starts the film ( light refreshments at 1:30 pm)
Venue: Auditorium, Ottawa Public Library, 120 Metcalfe Street.
Admission: Free

Chen  Hsi-huang, the eldest son of the puppet master Li Tian-lu. Li Tian-lu married into the Chen family in which he became the son-in-law. Under this situation, his eldest son was given the surname Chen. Being the son of the legendary puppet master and the special relationship between the father and the son led them to a mutual knot. In 2009, at the age of 79, Master Chen left the Li family and set up his own troupe, which soon earned recognition all over the world. Nevertheless, this traditional art declined rapidly and Chen found no one to pass on his great skills. Being a fan of puppetry, Director Yang Li-chou named his studio as “Back-stage” which means shooting documentary films just like the backstage of the puppetry is to assist human to reveal this world. The production of “Father” lasted for ten years. It not only recorded the inheritance mission of the eighty-year-old elders, but also explored the conflicts between the two generations. This film shows the master’s intelligent skills to give the poppet life in the big screen, trying to inject the unique charm of the traditional puppet show so as to bring it back to ordinary people.
 
陳錫煌,已故布袋戲大師李天祿的長子。李天祿因入贅陳家,長子按規定得姓陳。父親巨人般的身影、異姓父子的特殊關係,為兩人種下難解心結。2009 年,高齡七十九歲的陳錫煌離開家族庇蔭,只帶著紅盒子內供奉的戲神田都元帥,用自己的名字另創劇團,成為深獲國內外肯定的人間國寶。然而,傳統布袋戲的快速沒落,卻又讓他面臨空有一身絕學、慷慨授藝不藏私,可是後繼者寥寥可數的困境。楊力州愛看布袋戲,工作室取名「後場」,意指拍紀錄片一如為布袋戲敲鑼打鼓的樂陣,是在陪襯鏡頭裡的精彩人生。《紅盒子》製作歷時十年,不只紀錄八旬長者的傳承使命、探究兩代國寶間的矛盾,更以大銀幕展現老師傅為戲偶注入靈魂的掌中技藝,企圖將傳統布袋戲的獨特魅力,重新帶回常民生活。

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Organized by Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society and Presmted by Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada 
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