Sunday, August 29, 2010

終於可以期待一部中文電影---父後七日

How To Be Alone



A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.

Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, shot, animated by hand and edited. The video was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was produced by Bravo!FACT http://www.bravofact.com/

For more information on Tanya, go to http://www.tanyadavis.ca or visit her facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/p... You can purchase her first two CDs Make A List and Gorgeous Morning on iTunes and look out for her third CD which will be released in the fall!

For more information on Andrea Dorfman, visit her facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Andrea-... or http://www.andreadorfman.com

This video was shot on a Panasonic HVX 200 and the animation was hand drawn+painted and then scanned into Adobe After Effects, exported as QTs and edited on FCP.

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.

There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).

And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places.

And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.

Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.

The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone.

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.

When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.

Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.

Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.

It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.

And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it.

you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

Monday, August 23, 2010

邱妙津日記

日前,在豆瓣上被人問起邱在巴黎的住址,想起手邊她的日記一直斷斷續續,沒敢看完。拿起第二籍隨手翻到一頁,讀完之後很是傷心,她如果還在人世,該是多麼令人開心的一件事情,以她的敏感和天性還有才情,中文學界就有多了一位難得的女性。

決定親手敲幾篇放著,提醒自己需要愛惜生命,也提醒自己她曾那麼美好的來過這世界。

1995 一月三十一日

找到安哲羅普洛斯的介紹書,想到藝術裡那裡的風華跟氣度,唯有在藝術裡表達出那樣的境界,人生才算是滿足,值得,唯有堅持要創造藝術,堅持要藝術,藝術才會被真正實踐出來。

藝術家絕對是對生命有大魄力的人,那樣的魄力絕對是對生命(自己),對世界(他人),對藝術(意義)的魄力,這樣的三種魄力才能真正造就一個藝術家。藝術家是基於一種強大的愿力的存在意志,存在形態,而尋找到如此魄力的出口,勾勒出這樣的存在形態,就是一個藝術家一生中要走的生命路徑。藝術家需要的是了解現實,練習藝術表達工具,奔馳想像力於現實之上,尋找善思藝術表達的形式,以及在人生和人類文化的遺產裡受教化熏陶獲得領悟及汲取靈感。而面對生命,也是如此的,人需要去練習自己的生活工具,人需要自己尋求自己生活的表達形式,人要自己去了解生活裡的元素,自己領悟生活裡的意義,命題,自己學會駕馭自己的生活。

重新開始吧,世界何其之大,跌倒了在站起來便是,只要知道自己是如何跌倒的就好。生命何其闊綽,何必計較那些小小小小的創痕和傷口呢?自己可其富足,何必對別人虧欠自己的債務斤斤計較呢?胡適不是說嘛?[永遠有利息在人間]的。為了要使別人明白自己的過錯,為了要別人明白其對不起我的地方,為了要讓別人能依然眷戀我這個人及這個關係,為了要向別人顯示所曾經發生過和所曾經努力付出過意義,為了要使別人償還所虧欠我的一絲一毫,我甚至要以逼迫的方式去向別人乞討一張沒有人何人會當成一回事的[借據],我難道還不夠羞恥心嘛?人生之恥還有更甚於此的嘛?如果這樣的形勢我還看不破,還要繼續要求下去,置自己於更深的[恥]之中,那實在太對不起自己啦。

停止這一切討債的鬧劇吧,人生情啊慾啊再深,有甚麼更大不了於喪失[個人尊嚴]的,有甚麼好再割捨部下的,失去不了的?

吾言:彼時她心裡已開始有魔了吧?她用自己的理智抗拒,戰鬥,試圖打敗連自己都不願意承認的深深傷痕。如果幾年前看到這篇文該多好,或許那段瘋魔的歲月不會那麼長。

1995 二月六日

進了[女性研究],跟了一個[文學]的女師傅,我著著實實面對了這個階段的大問題[我要有甚麼?],[我要像甚麼?]光是論文的研究方向就已經為我自主或不自主地選定了一個方向啦
,我能再像從前那樣說這些不是我所喜歡的,這些不是我能喜歡的嗎?我已經慢慢地在喜歡這些東西,慢慢地在[有甚麼],[像甚麼]了。既然我跟了這樣一個老師,我能不臣服於她嗎?我能不學習到她的靈魂,她的研作曲徑,她的創作境界,她的生存藝術嗎?之於我的學生,我能不去思考我要教給她們甚麼?我要讓她們看到一個像甚麼樣子的我之典型?我要留下甚麼樣的創作作品與內涵供她們去研究與追尋呢?

四日那天,老師震撼了我,深深地震撼了我,使我的整個生命都深深地顫,發顫,為自己的意志薄弱,浪費時間與踐踏天分而深深地發抖,深深地發抖,我會記住這天的。

吾言:不知道她在八大跟的是誰,之前身邊有在做影像與女性研究論文的老師,之後希望能再碰到這位老師,會問關於女性研究這個discipline有多少個做文學方面的老師,或許能夠知道是誰。
8大的女性研究網址


1995 二月二十三日

創作原本就是對人,對文字,對所謂形式,對世界心得想法罷了,那時一種絕對的熱情。正如我所說的,作為一個情感的存在,對生命所要發問的點與理性的科學不同,所從而要向前論述生命的發動點也不同,作為一個存在類型,面向,我相信我自然能找到令我論述激動的發動點與關節脈絡,而這也就是教育我形成世界新觀點的養成過程。

認認真真考慮[放棄一個人],一個不值得我愛,不值得我尊敬的人,自己一點都不悲哀,放棄這樣一個人根本就不是我的損失,我還能損失甚麼?我到底還能損失甚麼?隨便一個陌生人對我都會比那個人對我更好,更友善,更熱情,更無私,而一個人的[善意]是可以直覺感受到的,[善意]就是[善意],[善意]像是一種微電波般會流進毛細孔裡,像隔壁的女孩。如果人性是不能信任的,不可理喻的,不可相了解的,難以審美的,那還有什麼好說的,還有什麼可計較的。經歷過這樣的創傷之後,我實在不能再信任那個人的人格,不能真心喜歡這樣一個人,那根本不是愛。我心裡除了恨以外,毫無其他真實情感。

[放棄一個人]意思著什麼呢?

吾言:不是有類似經歷的人恐怕還是難明白。

Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Brooklyn Follies

1 始
中文簡體版本的書在書架上安靜了很久,我和他都讀不下去,起初他說實在無法讀的時候我還納悶簡體字真的這麼難讀嘛..後來一次旅程中帶上這本書,誰知道翻譯實在苦澀不流暢,句與句之間有著明顯的完全不同的行文方式。

2 中
前個禮拜去朋友家,在他書櫃中一大堆法語書中偶然發現的TBF的英文原版,順手拿起來讀了一下,很快就讀完overture,在讀到第一章的時候想起GIDE的Les Faux-monnayeurs的開篇,覺得歐美文學真的還是一脈相承,兩本書雖決然不同,但文章結構重點的借用或者改用十分的明顯。

3
有人說書非借不能讀也,可我還是難以苟同,借人書的經歷不多,但幾番周折之下,借出去的幾乎都難以回來,所以習慣性不會借人書也不會向人借書,決定去saint michel一帶的幾家英文書店試下運氣。那天從hotel de ville附近的電影院出來天色很好,和朋友約luxembourg的rer附近見,於是決定一路步行到luxembourg,沿途正好可以去那幾家英文書店。

4
穿過notre dame的廣場,再沿著河堤走一點就到了十分著名的Shakespeare書店。曾經在索邦念法語的時候會天天經過,同班還有美國同學是免費住在書店里,但一直以來很少來這個書店,更是從來沒有在這裡買過一本書。碰運氣的時間到了,我用法文問櫃台里的年輕美國男孩是否有TBF,新的舊的都可以,他讓我幫他看著櫃台,自己到後面去找,不到一分鐘他回來,面帶難色,不用說自然是沒有找到。他接著開始在電腦上搜尋,之後說應該是有的,然後起身走出店面,在書店外面的幾個書盒子里找,很快他拿著一本白色封面大裝幀的TBF進來,對我說,這是免費的,你可以拿走。我十分不解問他緣由,可是明顯他的法語水平讓他面露尷尬有些語塞。我緊接用英文說,沒有關係,你可以用英文告訴我,我能聽懂。在一番解釋之下我明白書是出版社直接發給Shakespeare,因為其中有一些印刷錯誤,但總體來說不影響閱讀,原則上是要銷毀的,但不知道出於何種原因轉展下到了這裡。從Shakespeare得到一本免費的TBF,這是我怎麼也沒有料到的結果,auster喜歡寫生命里令人驚歎難以置信的情節,可我怎麼都沒有想到在尋找他的英文原文作品的時候這種事情發生在了自己身上。

5
之後的兩天我去圖書館里找了法文版本的TBF,對著同本書的另外兩種語言的譯本,饒有趣味的開始做比較。中文翻譯的十分差勁,充滿了翻譯的小錯誤,更不談翻譯的優美或者可讀性。法文版到是中規中矩,可是轉譯之下,儼然變成另外一本書,完全沒有英文版本里austur的精妙敘述。

6 結
最後確定一件事,看來一定得多學幾種語言,以後盡量讀原文,想到這突然心頭又一陣遺憾,俄文是我最不願意學的語言,此生恐怕不能讀小陀的原文。

Portishead-Road



Love this song very much,it reminds me "le Zenith",in the summer of 2008,Paris.
I was alone in that concert........it feel so good......

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

inception的题外话

在ugc看了一遍,后来又去城边上的pathe的imax又看了一遍。imax真的不错,果然是未来趋势,可是周末上座率还不到50%,不知道是因为影城远,同时还有vf在放还是因为票价真的有点贵,快和一个月的ugc卡的全价差不多了。无论如何,看着巴黎蜗牛般走向高科技(液晶广告箱终于出现在地铁里)。

这部电影看到20分钟的时候就像到一部日本动画,Paprika(http://movie.douban.com/subject/
1865703/),我不能相信nolan没有看过这部动画。最近在重温日本80,90年代动画,发现他们对好莱坞的影响一点都不小,这是我以前完全没有想到的。

inception的剧本写的很好,还没有下到,等电影快下档的时候,相信网上就应该有了。