Hail the Bodhisattva of Collected Junk
Mimi Ye
This experimental music video is based on a poem by Yin Ni that satirizes and celebrates a local custom in Taiwan. »Hail the Bodhisattva of Collected Junk«, the title of both the song and the poem, is a play on the Buddhist phrase »Hail the Bodhisattva Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy«. The poem refers to local junk dealers who shout out »Sell them to me!« as they go from house to house collecting unwanted household items, scrap metal, tools and electronic gadgets.
Mimi Ye
Mimi Ye is a Taiwanese poet and film-maker. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Department at Dong Hwa University and holder of a Master’s degree in Film from the Art Institute of Chicago, she has already published three anthologies of poems and produced several poetry films which have been screened internationally. A bilingual pamphlet of poems entitled His Days Go By the Way Her Years was recently published by Anomalous Press.
Films by Mimi Ye
The Celestial Eater of Rainbows 2016 | Tail 2014 | Was Being Moved? 2012 | They Are There But I Am Not 2009 | Even a Llama Has the Speed 2008 | Hair Snare 2007 | The More He Is the Sun the More She Is the Moon 2007 | Thank Heaven 2006 | What the Devil 2006
