第71期 | 感官世界:被知觉裹挟的欲望
Issue 71 | In the Realm of the Senses: sensation, desire, and sexual affect
题引人 Writer / Moderator | 袁小亚 XiaoYa Yuan
线上放映 Online Screening
好郁 Let's Love Hong Kong
导演:游静 Dir. Yau Ching
嘉宾对话 Panel
游静 Dir. Yau Ching
专题概述
我们生活在现实,但从未满足于现实。电影从诞生之初就开始向人们呈现充满虚构与幻想的世界,而影像中的叙事和表演也无时不参与着个体梦境与欲望的构建。由此,现实和影像渐趋同化,虚构与非虚构也越来越无法区分。人和人之间的关系因影像的介入发生改变,我们对“性”的理解和诠释很可能为影像主导。于此同时,在图像和现实的相互作用的语境下,我们似乎不可避免地放大了“视觉”,也边缘化了在生活和性体验中同样重要的其他身体感官。我们能否期待新技术的出现填补现实感官空缺?又将怎样迎接现实在虚构和虚拟共同作用下的新一轮发展?
We live in reality, yet we are not content with it. Since its advent, film has been offering its audience a filmic reality with fictionality and fantasy. Cinematic images, in turn, take part in the construction of individual dream, desire and sexuality. Cinema, then, blurs reality and fantasy, fiction and non-fiction. Subsequently, by reflecting and distorting our desires, it reorients our understanding of interpersonal and sexual relationships. Here, the emphasis on imagery raises questions about non-visual factors that also affect our perception of reality and sexual experience. With novel representational techniques entering the media realm trying to grasp the underrepresented, the manner in which fiction and non-fiction will evolve and continue to impact our notion of reality remains unknown.
Ahead of its time, the 2002 film Let’s Love Hong Kong offers an insight into the dynamic between imagery and reality, as well as the dilemma of modernized human interaction. Writer, director Yau Ching will join us as guest speaker to talk about her critical engagement with the issue from a perspective of gender and sexuality within the East Asian context.
放映影片
《好郁》
导演:游静
年份:2002
时长:87 min
语言:粤及英语对白/ 中英文字幕
《好郁》是一个描绘未来的香港,当中的欲望、爱、科技与身体的故事。在后现代、后过渡、亦真亦假的颓废之城,有四名实实在在的女子之间疑幻疑真的性爱/感情。当空间愈来愈少,我们愈来愈穷,科技愈来愈快,沟通愈来愈难,我们如何表达欲望与爱?
Zero不断做工又转工,陈国产有口难言,Nicole只享受电脑玩伴,阿姐最知道自己要什么。四名女子之间的窥视、试探、跟踪、恋慕、情与性,互相映照间也许建构出一片已过去又未来的香港镜像?
葡萄牙费加拿霍斯电影节影评人大奖; 台湾金马奖最佳新人奖提名;获邀参加超过三十个影展。
Let’s Love HongKong
Director: Yau Ching
Year: 2002
Length: 87 min
Language: Cantonese, English / English and Chinese Subtitles
Prémio De Ficção (International Critics’ Grand Prize For Fiction), Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal; Best New Performer Nominee, Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan; Invited to more than 30 film festivals
Fantasies, dreams, tears and fears of four women chasing and watching each other in post-colonial Hong Kong. They chase, seduce, resist and fantasize about each other. A Hong Kong that is as fake as real provides the perfect setting for their games, secrets, screams and tears. “Made-in-China Chan” (in Cantonese: Chan Kwok Chan) works as a stripper in cyberspace but she often has headaches. Her only solace is from a Mainlander migrant who echoes what Chan does but with a better attitude. Nicole has money and power but she depends on “Made-in-China” to play with virtually at night in order to get some sleep. Zero does not have anything but she knows what she wants and is determined to get it. Four women meet in Hong Kong somewhere in the future. How do their desires manifest themselves in this Forbidden City? From totally different backgrounds, they look like they have very different problems but do they?
导演介绍 Director Bio
游静 Yau Ching
一九八零年代开始在香港报章杂志上写专栏,并发表诗、文化艺术评论等。九十年代在纽约学习纪录片理论及制作、录像艺术创作等,在伦敦研读世界电影史及电影理论,并参与制作性小众电视节目。长期关注性与性别、媒体及再现议题,近年硏究香港文化史、民国及中国现代性。
曾于加州大学圣地牙哥校址、美国密西根大学、台湾国立政治大学、香港岭南大学等任教 。与友人创办「女同学社」作公共教育,替紫藤创办性工作者电影节,与台湾性别人权协会合办亚洲拉子影展。二零一七年起为香港大学名誉教授及汕头大学文学院客座教授,二零一八年起为香港中文大学中国研究中心客席教授。
专书多种,电影及录像作品曾入围台湾金马奖、日本山形国际纪录片展等。 《好郁》荣获葡萄牙费加拿霍斯电影节影评人大奖、《流》荣获日本视象论坛节评审团特别奖等。
Born in Hong Kong, Yau Ching is known in the Chinese-speaking world as a writer and in the English-speaking world a filmmaker and video artist. While managing her multiple identities, she has been making socially engaged work for more than three decades. She has authored more than twelve books, including award-winning poetry collections, and produced and directed more than ten films/videos. She studied in Hong Kong, New York and London, and has taught in Hong Kong, Michigan and Taiwan. She has also been actively involved in community organizing including co-founding an educational organization for sexual minorities in Hong Kong, co-founding a Sex Workers’ Film Festival and a Women’s Theatre Festival in Hong Kong, and the Asian Lesbian Film Festival in Taiwan, among others.
Before academia, Yau Ching has worked as instructor and consultant for Gay Men’s Health Crisis’ “Living with AIDS” cable show, as translator for multinational corporations, as editor for film magazine in Hong Kong, and on the side, an independent film/videomaker. Her film/video works have been invited to venues including Alexanderplatz Station of the Berlin Underground, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Galarie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and broadcast in North America, Europe and Japan.
As writer, she was invited to Singapore Writers’ Festival in 2019, and Iowa International Writers’ Workshop in 2020.
Starting from 2017, she is Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor in Liberal Arts at Shantou University, China. She is Adjunct Professor at Center for China Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. She plays Go/weiqi unprofessionally.
题引人
袁小亚
纽约大学电影研究硕士,纽约大学食物学在读。UnionDocs刊物编辑,IG实验账号「cinedible」博主。
「如有真实,纯属虚构」
Any resemblance to actual events is entirely fictitious.
本项目旨在探讨“虚构”与“非虚构”作为一种创作策略在当代艺术、电影、戏剧,以及更广泛的文化范畴内如何被创作者使用、被观众接受,继而影响我们对于既有文本亦或是世界的理解。通过对于特定作品的分析与研讨,2020夏季单元刺探并尝试锚定“虚构”与“非虚构”这两个概念之间的张力与边界。
本项目基于如下的五个子项目构架并展开:
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第70期 | 重演:事件还原中的余波荡漾
第71期 | 图像,真实,割裂的性
第72期 | 共同叙事的迷思:神话及虚构叙事学
第73期 | 纪录片:一种非虚构类型的虚构原罪?
单元策划人 | 张瀚文、王凯帆 选片邀片 | 潘锦心 题引人 | 王凯帆、曹晓婕、袁小亚、杨旖旎、张瀚文 合作剧团 | New York Mandarin Playback