Sunday, December 20, 2009

VIDEO PROGRAM BY URBAN NOMAD FILM FEST FOR "MOBILE MAN" EXHIBITION
影像節目:城市遊牧影展作給移動人展覽




Time / 時間: 12.18.2009 - 01.09.2010
Location: Heping E. Rd, Sec. 2, Lane 136 #24
地點: 和平東路二段136巷24號

PART I: "IT IS EASIER TO IMAGINE THE END OF THE WORLD THAN TO IMAGINE THE END OF CAPITALISM" - FREDERIC JAMESON
第一部曲: 「想像世界的毀滅總比想像資本主義的盡頭還容易」 詹明信

Suprematist Kapital (James Hong 洪子健 + Chen Yin-ju 陳瀅如/2006/5min)
Total Mobilization (James Hong 洪子健 + Chen Yin-ju 陳瀅如 /2005/8min)
Savage Growth (Bu Hua 卜樺/2008/4min)

PART II: YOU CAN SIMULATE, BUT YOU CANNOT ESCAPE
第二部曲: 現實可模擬,現實倒不能逃避

Spiderman Paratoon (Mia Chen/2008/Taiwan/3min)
Robot Love (Suzie Silver/2008/USA/4min)
奧斯陸的雨林 (徐聖義 + 張卡仔/2008/Taiwan/1min)
Have a Seat Please (Urs-P.Twellmann/2008/Switzerland/5min)

PART III: INSTEAD OF MEMORIES, WE HAVE IMAGES
第三部曲: 記憶是沒了,已被影像替代了

Evaporation 蒸發 (Simon Chang 張雍/Taiwan/Czech/8min)
Animagemalanguage 動物私語 (江淑婷 Chiang Shu-Ting/2008/Taiwan/18min)

PART IV: MAYBE IT'S TIME TO RECONSIDER "LIFE"
第四部曲: 或許我們現在應該重新思考「生活」的本質

Bored of Boredom (Chen Yin-ju 陳瀅如/2005/2min)
Recycle System I (Chen Yin-ju 陳瀅如 /2002/2min)
口味 Leaning into Taste (蔡宗翰 Tsai Tsung Han/2008/Taiwan/11:30min)
全豬 Whole Pig (周峻屹/2008/Taiwan/9min)
Escaping for a While (Chen Yin-ju 陳瀅如 /2002/2min)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

若下雨,座位有限 / rain = limited seats

大家好,我們真希望今天 (12月18日)晚上7點鐘的時候地是乾的,這樣影片能在戶外播放。不過如果下雨的話,就要把放映的部份移到室內,很可惜的是,室內的座位有限,請大家原諒。(反過來,客滿的房間會暖一點阿)之外,《移動人》展覽,遊牧影展的裝置區,9點鐘的party等活動都還是正常進行,都沒有容量的問題,所以還是希望與大家見面!

hi all, we are hoping to have the screening outdoors tonight (12/18), where we can accommodate the most people, but if it rains, we will have to move indoors and seats will be limited. in this case, we hope you will understand and bear with us (though on the upside, a packed house will keep everyone warmer). the Mobile Man exhibition and the exhibition reception will not be affected in any way by the weather, so in any event, it will be great to see you there.

-dave

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

12/18 (Fri): NOMAD DOCZ + FREE PARTY



We'll be doing screenings of Europe-based indie Directors James Hong, Chen Yin-ju and Simon Chang for the opening of the group exhibition "Mobile Man" at NTUE's new Wolong St. art space. There's a party after the screenings, we'll provide some white russians, and it's FREEE!!!

我們要告訴大家一個很棒的事情,我們準備參加台北教育大學的一個全新的藝術空間的開幕派對,當晚遊牧影展有找到三位 (!!!)通常住歐洲也剛好在台北的台灣/華人導演能親自來與大家交流,同時也有20幾個藝術家的群展開幕,除了電影與藝術品之外,還有一點啤酒,film趴又來嘍!!!

時間 / Time: 12/18 (五/Fri) 18:30-22:00
地點 / Place:
台北市大安區和平東路二段136巷24、29號
Heping E. Rd, Sec. 2, Lane 136, No. 24 & 29
票 / ticket: 免費 / FREE
Exhibition / 展覽網站: http://blog.roodo.com/mobileman

---------------活動時間表 (english below)--------------


18:30: 開場

19:00: 放映
PRAHA EROTICA (布拉格的性慾)
張雍/14分鐘/捷克/2009/語言:捷克/英/義大利/字幕:英/中
**放映後導演問答

長度14分鐘的紀錄片,是張雍在近兩年在布拉格所進行的拍攝計畫,目前還在持續紀錄中,紀錄捷克 A 片工業不為人知的一面,用影像的蒙太奇,寫實的紀錄手法,加上訪談,對這個神秘的行業提問。《Praha Erotica》獲選於本屆Transmediale - Festival for art and digital culture Berlin 藝術節中以台灣影像工作者的身份代表捷克參展放映。這部影片同時也將收藏於歐盟近年開始計畫的自1989年起至2009年的東歐錄像資料庫的一部份,是歐盟近年所規劃的重點影像建檔計畫。繼續閱讀

19:40
導演焦點:洪子健 與 陳瀅如
**放映後導演問答
陳瀅如與洪子健是一對跨領域的藝術創作團隊。
他們的實驗電影與紀錄片在世界各地展出,包含巴黎的龐畢度中心 (Centre Pompidou) 、西班牙的蘇菲亞王妃藝術中心Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía‏) 、舊金山國際影展 (SIFF),鹿特丹國際影展,以及阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節等。從舊金山到柏林到台北,這對合伙導演花了十年多諷刺探討世界各地的歷史,作品與一般嚴肅或形式化的實驗片完全不同,雖然主題極為沈重,包含歷史的真實性或理論性的問題,但他們的影片終究是透過具體的故事與情況而扣人心弦,有時也引人發笑。

本次挑選的六支短片題材,包含希特勒死亡紀念日、二次大戰日本在中國使用生化武器的後續,以及西方白人優惠的性資本(sexual capital) 等主題。
繼續閱讀

放映之後: party time

----------------EVENT SCHEDULE----------------------



18:30 begin

19:00
PRAHA EROTICA
Simon Chang/ 14min/ Czech/ 2009
language: Eng/Czech/Italian__subtitles: Eng/Ch
**screening followed by director Q&A

This Praha Erotica documentary series is not only a behind-the-scenes story of the porn industry in Prague, Czech Republic. With this image montage, I try to question the human side of this trade. After all, for those actors and actress going to the set and having sex with someone they hardly know as a daily/weekly job is certainly far beyond the imagination of most of us. This human side of this business intrigues me, but I’m not trying to make any conclusions here. Instead, I focus on what’s happening on what’s behind the cameras. It seems to be a flow mixing the most primitive human desires and also the most mysterious weaknesses of mankind. – Simon Chang, director CONTINUE READING

19:40
DIRECTORS IN FOCUS: CHEN YIN-JU and JAMES T. HONG
Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong are an interdisciplinary art team, producing installations, performances, and film and video works. They have exhibited in the Pompidou Center in Paris and Riena Sofia Museum in Madrid and shown films in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam. They are best known for experimental documentaries portray some of histories deepest ironies in a style that is highly watchable and often funny, despite the grave overtones of their larger message. The six films selected for this program range across the anniversary of Hitler’s death, Japanese biological warfare in WWII, the sexual capital of the white man and other fun topics. CONTINUE READING

Following the films, there will be a reception.


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PRAHA EROTICA (布拉格的性慾)



19:00
張雍/14分鐘/捷克/2009/語言:捷克/英/義大利/字幕:英/中
**放映後導演問答

長度14分鐘的紀錄片,是張雍在近兩年在布拉格所進行的拍攝計畫,目前還在持續紀錄中,紀錄捷克 A 片工業不為人知的一面,用影像的蒙太奇,寫實的紀錄手法,加上訪談,對這個神秘的行業提問。《Praha Erotica》獲選於本屆Transmediale - Festival for art and digital culture Berlin 藝術節中以台灣影像工作者的身份代表捷克參展放映。這部影片同時也將收藏於歐盟近年開始計畫的自1989年起至2009年的東歐錄像資料庫的一部份,是歐盟近年所規劃的重點影像建檔計畫。

張雍(Simon Chang):攝影師,短片工作者,作家,兼具多重身份的張雍旅居捷克布拉格至今已六年餘,曾就讀於FAMU(布拉格影視學院)攝影系碩士班。其文章與攝影作品散見於捷克《Prague Post》、A2 Weekly、台灣《聯合報副刊》、《Luxe Traveler旅人誌》、長榮航空《Verve》、台北與香港的《東西名人雜誌》以及大陸《青年視覺雜誌》等報章雜誌。 張雍專注於台灣少見的黑白紀實攝影領域,拍攝主題多元且充滿了人道關懷的生命力。不同系列的紀實攝影作品亦曾於捷克,斯洛伐克,德國展出,短片作品也曾在斯洛凡尼亞,德國,法國及荷蘭的短片影展中放映。網址:www.simon.chinito.com

PRAHA EROTICA



7:00pm
Simon Chang/ 14min/ Czech/ 2009
language: Eng/Czech/Italian __subtitles: Eng/Ch
**screening followed by director Q&A

This Praha Erotica documentary series is not only a behind-the-scenes story of the porn industry in Prague, Czech Republic. With this image montage, I try to question the human side of this trade. After all, for those actors and actress going to the set and having sex with someone they hardly know as a daily/weekly job is certainly far beyond the imagination of most of us. This human side of this business intrigues me, but I’m not trying to make any conclusions here. Instead, I focus on what’s happening on what’s behind the cameras. It seems to be a flow mixing the most primitive human desires and also the most mysterious weaknesses of mankind.
– Simon Chang, director (2/11/2009)

This film has been selected for the 2009 Transmediale – Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Berlin and is in the collection of the Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe. Simon’s short film Evaporation (2008) showed in numerous film festivals in Europe and Urban Nomad 2009.

SIMON CHANG is a 31-year-old Taiwanese photographer, filmmaker and writer living in Prague since 2003. Over the last six years, he has used film and still black-and-white photographs to collect stories from eastern Europe, including the prize winning series “They/Oni,” a documentary about Bohnice mental hospital in Prague. He applies a rigorous documentary style to his subjects, which have also included Czech huntsmen, a traditional Czech circus family, a remote Roman village in Hungry, and most recently a documentary about the Czech Republic porn industry.

Simon was born in Taipei and began acting in TV commercials as a high school student, appearing in ads for Nissan, Mitsubishi, MTV Taiwan and others. He majored in fine arts at Fujen Catholic University, and received local prizes for short films he directed. For more, see: www.simon.chinito.com

導演焦點:洪子健 與 陳瀅如



19:40
**放映後導演問答

陳瀅如與洪子健是一對跨領域的藝術創作團隊。
他們的實驗電影與紀錄片在世界各地展出,包含巴黎的龐畢度中心 (Centre Pompidou) 、西班牙的蘇菲亞王妃藝術中心Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía‏) 、舊金山國際影展 (SIFF),鹿特丹國際影展,以及阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節等。從舊金山到柏林到台北,這對合伙導演花了十年多諷刺探討世界各地的歷史,作品與一般嚴肅或形式化的實驗片完全不同,雖然主題極為沈重,包含歷史的真實性或理論性的問題,但他們的影片終究是透過具體的故事與情況而扣人心弦,有時也引人發笑。

本次挑選的六支短片題材,包含希特勒死亡紀念日、二次大戰日本在中國使用生化武器的後續,以及西方白人優惠的性資本(sexual capital) 等主題。


----影片----

《資本主義萬萬歲》(2006/5分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健)
西方資本主義歷史的符號象徵。科技的發展過程中,科技應是資本累積與戰爭的服侍者,但在石油世紀與戰爭的當下,科技卻代表了資本主義。此片靈感來自於俄國藝術家馬勒維奇提出的「絕對主義」(Suprematism)與當今的石油戰爭。作品中的影像符號適於任何畫質解析度的螢幕,大至戲院小至手機或iPod螢幕。

《希特勒地堡:遊客、新納粹,或是… 4月30日2009年》
(2009/6分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健)
一九四五年四月三十日,希特勒於柏林的藏身地堡舉槍自盡。本片呈現六十四年後的同一天與同一地點,會有哪些人出沒,什麼事發生?

《恆殤》(2009/23分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健)
本片紀錄在二次大戰期間,研發生化武器的日本731部隊所留下的遺毒,以及被波及的被害者。

《全面動員》 (2005/8分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健)
遷徙與移民是事實亦是命途。美國白人的逐漸消失有可能終結美國強權,西方世界也許只剩下歐洲與其殖民地。沒有了美國,所謂的西方只剩下歐亞大陸末端的一小角。〈全面動員〉是一部諷刺、誇張的實驗片,利用集體奮鬥的螞蟻作為隱喻。它也許影射美國白人的隱懮,又或許是直接陳述事實,端看觀眾如何詮釋。

《財‧縫》 (2008/8分鐘/陳瀅如)
一位台灣母親日夜辛勞地為貴婦人裁製衣服賺錢,以支付女兒在美就學的昂貴學費。全片以一通討論信用卡開支的母女越洋電話為對白,影像則呈現詳細的縫紉工作過程,企圖表達傳統亞洲父母為了孩子無怨無悔的奉獻。

《台北101:病徵紀實》 (2004/23分鐘/洪子健)
一位亞裔美國人在台灣如同朝聖般的尋根之旅中,看到世界最高的建築–台北101;他意外的發現台灣的文化意識被美國文化明顯而強勢的侵略,並沾污成為全球化、美國化、資本主義化、以及跨越國際的白人強權。

導演的網站:
http://www.zukunftsmusik.com
http://www.yinjuchen.com

DIRECTORS IN FOCUS: CHEN YIN-JU and JAMES T. HONG



7:40pm
** Director Q&A following the screening

Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong are an interdisciplinary art team, producing installations, performances, and film and video works. They have exhibited in the Pompidou Center in Paris and Riena Sofia Museum in Madrid and shown films in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam. They are best known for experimental documentaries portray some of histories deepest ironies in a style that is highly watchable and often funny, despite the grave overtones of their larger message. Films selected for this program range across the anniversary of Hitler’s death, Japanese biological warfare in WWII and the sexual capital of the white man.

-------------FILMS---------------

Suprematist Kapital (2006/5min/Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A Symbolic History of Kapital. Inspired by Kasimir Malevich's minimalist artworks and the struggles for resources in the age of peak oil, Suprematist Kapital was born of the want to create a visual artwork that could be displayed on many different-sized mediums regardless of resolution, e.g., theater screens, mobile devices, ipod's, etc. Where once technology as progress was an end in itself, it became the handmaiden of capitalist accumulation and war, and is now a form of capital itself in the age of peak oil.

Führerbunker: Touristen, Neo-Nazis, und Andere - 30 April 2009
(2009/6min/ Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A video document of Hitler’s final bunker in Berlin, Germany on the anniversary of his suicide (30 April).

Wounds That Never Heal
(2009/23min/ Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A short profile of the victims and lasting legacy of Unit 731 -- a World War II, Japanese, biological warfare facility. Following the first bombing of Tokyo by US forces, the Japanese punished entire villages and counties in China where the bombers crash landed by spraying diseases from crop-duster-like airplanes. The effects can still be seen on the bodies of those living in the region today.

Total Mobilization (2005/8min/Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
Migration is fact; immigration is destiny. The disappearance of White America could mean the end of the United States of America, as we have known it. The West could be reduced to Europe and few lightly populated overseas European settler countries. Without America, the West becomes a miniscule and declining part of the world’s population on a small and inconsequential peninsula at the extremity of the Eurasian land mass. TOTAL MOBILIZATION is an evocative, ironic, and bombastic experimental video that ostensibly focuses on a group of struggling ants. The open-minded will see it as a trenchant metaphor of nativist fears; the closed-minded will see it as a document of the truth.

Transactions (2008/8min/Chen Yin-ju)
This video shows one example of how Asian parents devote themselves to their grown children. Here a mother works tirelessly for rich clients so she can send her daughter to study in the USA. The montage illustrates the detailed procedure of dressmaking, and the phone conversation covers credit card expenses, converted from US dollars to Taiwanese yuan.

Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms (2004/23min/James T. Hong)
In TAIPEI 101: A TRAVELOGUE OF SYMPTOMS an Asian American encounters the semblant operations of Americanization on a pilgrimage to Taiwan. He discovers that Taipei 101 -- currently the world's tallest building -- Taiwan's culture, and his own consciousnesses are indelibly marked by globalization, America, capitalism, and the transnational power of white men.

FOR MORE INFO ON JAMES T HONG AND CHEN YIN-JU, SEE:
http://www.zukunftsmusik.com
http://www.yinjuchen.com

Saturday, December 05, 2009

New Logo Variations



we call this one the "potsmoker's deathwish with cherry blossoms." if people like it, maybe we'll print some t-shirts or stickers.