Our New Homeland

The film documents ‘Protest against the bulldozers of the City Government’ in 1997, the first urban social movement in Taiwan. That year, the mayor of Taipei had an illegal community that had existed for over six decades demolished, which resulted in a political crisis of the city-state as well as a sting of actions regarding the discourses on city space. The film director is not only an organiser but also the recorder of it. The film is the first document of all Chinese communities that focuses on urban renewal and social movement.