Taipei, Water City 水城台北
Channel: eRenlai Ricci
Date: 21/11/2013

Until recently Taipei had been a city of water. We have been re-exploring an irrigation channel of old, the Liugong Canal, a great engineering feat completed 250 years ago, which first sought out and brought a water source to irrigate the Taipei Basin, turning Taipei into a city of water. For the last 40 years, however, the Liugong Canal and most of Taipei's water channels have been removed from the community, gradually covered with asphalt and concrete to make way for residential and commercial space; buried underground, to make way for economic development.

We began to dig up Taipei residents' memories of the Liugong Canal, going on a an adventure traversing through the time-travel wormhole to be reconnected to the memories which were buried along with the canal; and exploring plans to bring the Liugong Canal back into the city.

「六十年代的台北，曾是水渠密布、水田處處的台北。」
舒國治謂，四十年來台北最大的改變可得一句話：由水城變成陸城。
從此「水城台北」只能留存在記憶中了。

這部十幾分鐘簡短的紀錄片，包含了居民及學者簡單的訪談，得以稍稍窺見以往台北生活中，水道及市民生活的緊密連結關係。