Qiu Miao-jin & Lin Hsu Wen-Er
35 mins
Qiu Miaojin is best known as the author of Notes of a Crocodile, a lesbian coming-of-age novel set in Taipei in the late 1980s and published in 1994, shortly before Qiu’s tragic death in 1995 at the age of twenty-six. That same year, Qiu made her first short film Ghost Carnival with Lin Hsu Wen-Er. Siping, a young woman commits suicide after experiencing sibling rape; she haunts her brother Jinyang’s memory in the days approaching his twentieth birthday. In Qiu’s Last Words from Montmartre, she expresses her love for the filmmakers Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky.
Qiu Miaojin was a Taiwanese novelist. She is best known for her 1994 novel Notes of a Crocodile. Qiu’s works are frequently cited as classics, and her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan.
Qiu Miaojin was a Taiwanese novelist. She is best known for her 1994 novel Notes of a Crocodile. Qiu’s works are “frequently cited as classics”, and her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan. She has a strong interest in movies and admires Angelopoulos and Tarkovsky.
Lin Hsu Wen-Er is a writer and the editor-in-chief of Persimmon Culture Publishing House. In 1991, he collaborated with writer Qiu Miaojin on the 16mm film Ghost Carnival. In 2005, he won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Editor for 《台灣小學世紀風華》(Taiwan primary School Century Style).