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Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002)

《凌遲考》Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (陳界仁 Chan Chieh-Jen, 2002)

Inspired by a photograph taken by a French soldier in the early 1900s of a ‘lingchi’ execution, Chen created a high-impact film that reconstructed this brutal form of punishment for criminals who had committed heinous crimes in feudal China. Lingchi – Echoes of a Historical Photograph opens with the gruesome execution...