2022 Boston Taiwan Film Festival
Sat, Oct 01
|Boston
Crack & Light 裂縫與光


Time & Location
Oct 01, 2022, 10:00 AM – Oct 02, 2022, 6:00 PM
Boston, 175 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111, USA
About the Event
The album “The Future” by Leonard Cohen and released in 1992 featured a song “Anthem”. Its lyrics reflected the peaks and troughs brought by the global events at that time, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin wall and the massacre at the Tiananmen Square. Yet, the generation at that time still found hope. The way to find light is through the cracks. “Crack” signifies the imperfections in life. In the realms of personal achievements, family relationships, career, religion, politics and country, it’s never easy to reach a perfect state or answer. “Crack” could be the distance between two objects attempting to connect or the interactivity in between psychological layers. Alternatively, “Crack” can also be the necessary buffer zone in a structure. However, when light enters the space, “Crack” is no longer a negative state. “Crack” may be part of the glaze on pottery, caused by…
