Eight Hundred Heroes 2016-17
影廳與其電影內容無關好與壞,而是背後結構如何組織一個確信的對象物與它的質地。
歷史套層的結構下,其沉浸是多層次的媒介化經驗,錄像內的影音是看空間,空間也是生產被看的影音。一種集體的動員形式。觀眾的觀看空間與攝影機的主動、客觀鏡頭在身份上來回行動,這一來回行動總是交互式的動員,動員了鏡頭去觀看參與的過程,同時也是生產影音內容不斷轉換的過程。來回穿梭之間對作品的實踐而言無關乎慣常的好與壞,而是影廳內一切的物件,從電影內容、銀幕空間、放映室設備在場面調度過程中不僅只是再現自身,同時共構出觀看亦是生產觀看的多層遊戲。
「八百壯士」(1979)是一部在台灣被稱為愛國時期的電影,講述一段上海抗戰的史實。觀看難以逃離談論政治,事件不論從歷史到電影的生產,從影廳的黑箱與劇場,觀眾的被動等等,不可逃離地在被作為一個事件之觀看中又能如何觀看,是作品透過集體動員每個即刻現場的物件在思考的事。
Film is the place where the “belief" assemblage visual and non-visual object under the structure of the historical layers.
"Eight Hundred Heroes" (八百壯士, 1979) is a film produced in Taiwan, it draws out the Second Sino-Japanese War on Shanghai during WWII: while facing an inevitable war of survival, from history to the production of films, from screen to black box, its immersion is a multi-layered medium experience.
The movement of the camera activated between the beholder, film, and theater. This back-and-forth action is always collectively mobilized all the objects in the theater, turn out a game of constructing.