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Inspired by the book “Undeliverable Last Notes”, “Unread Goodbye” delves into the suppressed history of Taiwan’s White Terror (1949-1991), a period of harsh political repression where dissent was punished by death. The project centers on the heartbreaking reality of Liu Yao-ting, a young print house worker arrested in 1952 while his wife, Shih Yueh-hsia, was pregnant.
Though they exchanged over eighty letters during his 15-month imprisonment, Liu was executed one day after their third wedding anniversary, leaving Shih to raise their twin daughters alone. This project utilizes a symbolic maternity dress and a mixed-media skeleton to represent the “absence” of a husband that became a constant “presence” in a widow’s life. It is a performance of illusion in which one woman carries the weight of two lives, embodying the unspoken grief of a generation.
Directed by Fu-Ling Kuo (Taiwan)