"Having aboriginal peoples making their own videos involves the problem of interpre tation," says documentary maker Li Tao-ming. In the past, outsiders often arrived with preconceived dichotomies like "mainstream vs. non-mainstream, or privileged vs. disadvantaged. They saw themselves as being in charge of the documentary effort, of being at a higher level than the subjects. This type of thinking must be smashed.
「原住民拿起攝影機，牽涉到詮釋權的問題」，紀錄片工作者李道明說，以往外來者的觀點往往帶有「主流對非主流、強勢對弱勢，指導性、上對下位階關係的解釋方式，而這樣的思考模式必須被打破，原住民自己拿攝影機也就是重新取得主體性。」