To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity
Film screening and discussion with Director
To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity – The Film Screening of ‘And Miles to Go Before I Sleep’ (九槍) with Director Tsai Tsung-lung.
Nguyen Quoc Phi was nobody before he died, but now he tells his own story as a young migrant from Nghệ An, Vietnam, to Taiwan in this documentary. Phi was an undocumented migrant worker, or a ‘runaway’, in northern Taiwan before he was shot nine times by the police and left unattended by the paramedics on 31 August 2017. What made him ‘run away’ from his factory work? How did he find jobs in various construction sites? Why did he start taking drugs? Was he an imperfect victim? These are straightforward questions leading to complicated answers. And Miles to Go before I Sleep (九槍, ‘Nine Shots’) brings to the fore the nakedness of discrimination and the challenges to humanity if we choose to be bystanders indifferent to inequality and injustice . Please join us for the screening of this award-winning documentary and find out how each of us can take actions to stop discrimination and inequality. In November 2022, the film won the Best Documentary Feature of the Golden Horse Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in the Sinophone cinema.
Speaker: Tsai Tsung-Lung (蔡崇隆) graduated with a law degree in Bachelor from the National Chengchi University and a Master’s degree in Mass Communication from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia in the UK. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Communications of the National Chung Cheng University and works as an independent documentary producer and director.
Coordinator: Dr Isabelle Cockel is Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth.
Date:
4 December 2023, 16:00 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speaker:
Tsai Tsung-lung (National Chung Cheng University)
Organising department:
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Organisers:
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
bo-jiun.jing@area.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Clare Orchard
