Theatre: Documentary Rebuilding the Tong-an Ships (50'00")
The documentary Rebuilding the Tong-an Ships is an original video production created under the NPM's vision "forming new vitality for the collection. Creating new value for the museum." Starting from the NPM's Diagram of the Tong-an Ship Ji and related Qing archives, the project team begins a journey to salvage a long forgotten history. It uses technologies such as scale models, 3D models, and many other visualisation tools to restore the East Asian maritime glory during the 19th century and unveil the Tong-an ships multiple faces.
This film won the Gold Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival.
Animation Adventures in NPM: The Formosa Odyssey (11'45")
Here comes a puppy! A dog in a museum? Blackie, a Formosan Mountain Dog from the Qing era, mysteriously shows up in the NPM's Multimedia Display Room 210. Finding his way around the 21st century, Blackie meets Child Pillow, Jade Duck, and Jade Pi-hsieh (Talisman), the NPM's adventurous trio. This time Blackie will bring them back in time, aboard a Tong-an ship, and ride the raging waves across the sea to the long lost 18th-century Taiwan.
This animation won the Platinum Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival and Gold Award of FIAMP(International Audiovisual Festival on Museums and Heritage).
