| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 105 === This thesis investigates the narratives of eco-traumas in three documentary films including “Beyond Beauty – Taiwan from above” directed by aerial photographer Chi Po-lin, “Ali88” directed by Huang Hsin-yao, “Kanakanavu await” directed by Mayaw Biho. We try to reveal the potential living obstacles of Taiwan indigenous people by analyzing the camera angles. The concept of “eco-trauma” introduced by Dr. Anil Narine addresses one inconvenient truth that we, as human, may subconsciously tend to ignore the environmental damage caused by the global economy development because of the convenience it brings to our daily life. We wish to take actions to protect the environment but failed to do so. We respond to the global environmental crisis with this paradoxical mentality. The eco-trauma includes the environmental degradation caused by human activities and the harm nature does to human. The three documentary films record the environmental degradation of land, forests, and rivers in Taiwan and reflect the connection between human and nature. Therefore, they could be categorized as the “eco-trauma cinema”.
Nowadays, the environmental degradation of Taiwan is getting more and more serious, we tend to escape or to ignore the environmental crisis under the mental condition of eco-trauma. The victims of pollution are usually the underprivileged people of Taiwan society, including the indigenous people. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the land eco-trauma in the film “Beyond Beauty – Taiwan from above”, the forest eco-trauma in “Ali88”, the river eco-trauma in “Kanakanavu await”. Then I analyze the narrative strategies in the films that the directors used to reveal the eco-traumas of indigenous people by using different shooting styles. At the end, I discuss the deep issues of indigenous people’s eco-traumas from three perspectives including environmental justice, reflection on natural disasters, and ceremonial heritage. By discussing the eco-trauma issues, I expect that the obstacles in indigenous people’s living environment could be understood and the justice be promoted, and the indigenous people would be able to live with their own ethnic characteristics on the island.
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