Tuesday, April 01, 2008

5/2 (五) Friday

@Taipei Artist Village, 7 Beiping E. Rd., Taipei (MRT Shandao Temple)
台北藝術村 台北市北平東路7號-善導寺捷運站
Map 地圖

7:30pm


Shorts 8: Ironic Fantasies

短片八: 異想不到的每件事

KUSO! 是今年我們的主題,如果你還不知道何為 KUSO,先看看 Extra-Ordinary,接著「水岸麗景」這部片描述一群打工族的連鎖效應...,堪稱 KUSO 的極致表現!而 Kara, Daughter of a Tree, 嗯...我們真的不知該怎麼說了,看了就知道啦!

This year, we asked for Kuso – Internet slang for goofball homemade movies and parodies – and boy did we get it in Extra-Ordinary, which makes a powerful argument for the possibility of high (albeit ridiculous) art within the genre. Waterfront Villa Bonita, one of Taiwan’s top professional studio productions of last year, is meanwhile more concretely about bank robbers and doomsday cults, but still quite absurd. Then two Indonesian films look at the ironies of weddings and…to be honest, we’re not exactly so sure how to explain Kara, Daughter of a Tree. It’s a little bizarre. Just watch it.

Infection 感染

Joseph Lam 林競熠 / 2007 / Hong Kong 香港 / 3min / no dialogue
Kara, a Daughter of a Tree
Edwin / 2005 / Indonesia 印尼 / narrative 劇情 / 9min / no dialogue
The Anniversaries
Ariani Darmawan / 2006 / Indonesia 印尼 / short fiction 短片劇情 / 12min / Eng/Indo/Ch 英/印尼/中
Waterfront Villa Bonita 水岸麗景
Lou Yi-an 樓一安 / 2007 / Taiwan 台灣 / fiction 劇情 / 24min / Ch/En 中/英
Extra-Ordinary
Feng Cheng-an 馮承安 / 2007 / Taiwan 台灣 / kuso 惡搞 / 30min / En/Ch 英/中


9:30pm

Mei Mei

美美

Gao Tian 高天 / 2005 / China 中國 / documentary 記錄片 / 82min / Ch/En subs 中/英

頂著韓國光州國際影展評審團大獎的中國獨立記錄片「美美」,在巡迴柏林影展、阿姆斯特丹國際記錄片影展等等國際影展之際,也受邀本屆的城市遊牧影展,將與台灣的觀眾驚艷相見!

「美美」是中國年輕導演高天所完成的第一部長片,初試啼聲卻一鳴驚人,在各大國際影展出盡鋒頭。故事記錄在北京同志夜店表演的同志扮裝皇后美美,她一年多來的一個人生起伏片段。本來同性戀、扮裝反串、同志酒吧、同性結婚等議題,在年輕的資本主義中國來講,應該算是相對聳動爭議的話題,但是高天卻以通俗浪漫的劇情片手法來包裝這部記錄片。「美美」有一般扮裝皇后類型電影都會有的類型元素和類型手法,高天用這些通俗劇的手法也許有意、也許無意,然而就是這種通俗浪漫的匠氣包裝,才得以匹配扮裝皇后的俗麗艷氣。有意思的是,這也正式“美美”讓人驚訝、覺得特別的原因。就像是毎一個扮裝皇后,在她濃妝豔抹、小丑賣笑的廉價脂粉底下,仍然可以被人猜測得到的活生生但不完整的溫熱血肉;即使那樣厚稠的脂粉教人知道要識相地保持距離,但扮裝皇后那可笑、認命、不叫苦的大花臉,就是硬把我們這些有尊嚴、懂得保護自己的清高觀眾給比了下去。也就是說,這部記錄片的主角美美,她的生活遭遇本身就有強大的渲染力,儘管片中很多訪問對談或是配合劇情安排、或是不遮掩地矯揉造做;但是這些被記錄下來的題材,仍然能夠頑強地掙脫出通俗劇的枷鎖,衝到你的面前,狠狠地死給你看!這也就是為何「美美」讓人如此驚艷的地方。而原來男人不好好當男人、乞丐不認真跪地乞討、自作孽、不受教,就是這個樣子啊! - 吳東旺

After receiving the top award at Korea’s Gwangju Film Festival and appearances at the Berlin Film Festival and Amsterdam Documentary Festival, Mei Mei comes to Taiwan for its first ever screening. The documentary tells the story of Beijing’s most famous drag queen, Mei Mei, the grande damme of Beijing’s gay club scene. But she finds herself facing competition from a younger group of performers and begins to reevaluate her life and goals. The film follows her on stage, in the dressing room, in public, and most revealing, returning to her home town to visit her family, who speak candidly about how they feel about their “son’s” vocation and identity.