GOLDEN HOUR

A memory about rivers and a craft which is about to be lost.

Keelung River and Tamsui River are the roots of Taipei City. Liu Ching Cheng’s family had been making wood boats for five generations, and in that era the main transports were waterways instead of cars and roads. The Liu family made sampans for almost the entire river basin. Today, not only the transportation function was replaced by roads and bridges, but also the people of Taipei have built towering high walls to cut us off from those two rivers.
As the sampan industry declined, Liu Ching Cheng who never gave up the ancestral wooden boat making, now only do the business of making dragon boats for the Dragon Boat Festival races. His pair of hands had been making dragon boats for decades, now, this pair of hands is making the last boat of his life.