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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

舞臺震撼 :: stage struck

The Hong Kong premier of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde was, surprisingly, performed by a group of ordinary students from an ordinary secondary school. Though far from being impeccable, these teenagers have put up an extremely impressive show, under the coaching of a professional production team. More importantly, the whole project is a tremendous learning experience for the whole school, which can form the basis of much further community learning in many aspects. Above all, the experience of culture-making would be invaluable for these kids.

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早前看了這個音樂劇,蠻感動,而且蠻激動。

感動和激動的,不是戲本身,而是整件事情,as a project。

Jekyll and Hyde是曾經瘋魔紐約百老匯、多次獲獎的音樂劇,從未在香港上演過。

敝教會連結著的中學,慶祝創校廿五周年,膽粗粗由同學們擔綱演出,一句講嗮:勁到爆。

固然,導演和主要的幕後班底都是專業的外援,但是,我自己身為一個在香港出生、在香港長大、在普通香港中學畢業的香港仔,看著臺上這群同樣是在一所普通香港中學讀書的普通中學生,以如此專業舞臺水平演出這套唱、做都相當高難度的音樂劇,震撼難以形容。

尤其是,我從前所讀的那間普通中學,跟他們這間普通中學,是同一個辦學團體的,就更叫我這個『算盤校友』(或稱『表校友』)倒瀉七味粉 —— 既讃嘆且羨慕兼妒忌。

要從雞蛋挑骨頭,當然可以挑得到。譬如說,我會嫌部份同學的英語發音未夠圓潤漂亮,有些對白吐字不夠清晰;又譬如說,我會嫌他們整體的的口音,美國色彩稍濃(其實可能是TVBese 又名Pearlish accent),跟故事場景(十九世紀倫敦)不吻合。

但是他們感情的拿捏、位置timing的準繩、唱腔功架的收放,水平之高叫人無話可說。我沒有真正在百老匯看過百老匯音樂劇(赤貧神學生,只能用幾塊錢學生票在波士頓看Broadway cast、在愛丁堡看London cast),不敢比較;但是我敢說,目下香港本地主流媒體裡那些所謂『演藝界』人士,沒有多少位有這樣的歌唱水平。

我尤其喜愛那位演Emma的中三同學(我看的是日場Cast J),她放開懷抱的唱、做,那口亮麗的英語,用句老土成語,繞樑七日。

請注意,他們是實牙實齒句句現場唱的,音樂是自家同學校友組成的管弦樂團演奏的,不是夾口型,不是播soundtrack。

除了同學在臺前幕後的努力,學校師長的膽量與識見也叫人感動。

或許很多人都會著眼於付出了多少 —— 嘩,用了很多錢吧?噢,投入了很多人力啦?然而,動員師生一起籌備、排演一套英語音樂劇,在正式的演藝場地,公開售票演出,所得到的收獲,又豈止是那三天四場的掌聲,或者那其實不會很多的門票收入?

如果校長老師能夠好好harness的話,那差不多整整一年的經驗,絕對是凝聚校內群體意識最好的種籽,而且收割期可以遠遠超過一年。

未來一大段日子,學校還可以用這套劇做跳板,提升同學的英語學習、文學熏陶、文化眼界、音樂修養;也由於Jekyll and Hyde的故事題旨,讓師生可以借此探討人性本質、善惡爭持、甚至科技的可能與極限,等等等等,大堆涉及生命、宗教、倫理的課題。整個學校的community learning,都可以常常refer back to this common experience as their resource,一套戲,有排玩。

在這一切之上,我覺得最重要的,是讓中學生親身經歷了一次很intensive的『創造文化』(culture making)歷程,大概沒有比這更有效、更根本而且all in one的文化教育、媒體教育、生命教育、和社會教育(education for being a member of a society)了。

謝謝同學、老師、和校長,叫我這個辦學團體裡的小小薯,亦感榮然。

Saturday, 18 October 2008

謝晉 1923 - 2008 :: Xie Jin

Back in the 1980s when I used to watch quite a lot of mainland Chinese films, Xie Jin was my favourite Chinese director.  He passed away at his place of birth after attending the 100th anniversary of his alma mater.  Seems that his own life journey has embodied one of the key themes of his films — to return home.

 

 

謝晉(1923.11.23 - 2008.10.18)。

八十年代當我看不少中國(大陸)電影的年代,曾經是我非常喜愛的中國導演。

舞臺姐妹》(1965)在暗湧不絕的文革前夕,是不可多得的人性戲劇。

天雲山傳奇》(1980)是文革之後傷痕電影的代表作。還記得當年對馮晴嵐這個人物很是神往。(我是看了這部戲才懂得讀這個『嵐』字的 —— 謝謝文蘭芳老師。)

牧馬人》(1982)非常刻意地流露著一股我現在已經吃不消的愛國情懷,但當年竟然去戲院看了三次(是旺角南華戲院),有幾句對白,現在還背得出來。

到了《高山下的花環》(1984),感覺已經沒有那麼深刻。

記憶中最後看謝晉的電影,應該是《老人與狗》(1993),很灰,很沉,只覺得,謝晉失去了原來的動力。

我變了,對於謝晉後來的電影已經提不起興趣 —— 尤其是《鴉片戰爭》(1997)。(不過我倒覺得那部曾被港英政府禁映廿多年的《鴉片戰爭》(1959)十分精彩。)

話說回來,我跟謝晉前輩在工作上也曾經有差不多擦身而過的經驗 —— 十多年前,我們拍過一系列關於中國城市文化轉變的紀錄片,上海大學影視學院曾經在籌備階段給我們很大幫忙,當時的院長,正是謝晉。可惜,那時一直只跟副院長對口,無緣拜訪或者跟前輩碰面。

謝晉回到他出生的地方(浙江上虞),參加過他母校春暉中學一百周年校慶,然後就去了,像是以自己生命的開始和終結,呼應他電影裡的重要題旨。

落葉,歸根。

 

延伸Interview with Xie JinJump Cut 34, March, 1989, pp. 107-109)

Thursday, 16 October 2008

耶穌默片 :: silent Jesus film

Christian stories, including that of the life of Jesus, was a very popular subject matter in the early years of the cinema. 

One of the earlier (certainly not THE earliest) cinematic representations of the life of Jesus in the silent film era was From the Manger to the Cross.  It was filmed on location in Palestine —— something that most of the other Jesus films all through the decades did not manage to do. 

Some day, I hope to do a course on the Jesus Film genre (working title: 'Jesus in the Cinema'; or 'The Gospel According to the Screen').  I've done some work in the area but perhaps not substantial enough to offer a full course yet.  Any potential student out there?

 

 

 

Thursday, 26 June 2008

哈爾移動城堡 :: Howl's Moving Castle

 

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『你一定要等我,我一定會來。在未來等我!』

—— Sophie(倍賞千惠子演繹)

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

中國孩子上學去 :: Chinese Schools

I (somewhat accidentally) watched the first of the 5-episode new series Chinese Schools on BBC FOUR. It is a fine piece of ethnography done with a TV camera. If you have access to it through any means, do take a look. 【BBC FOUR, Tuesday 9-10pm, repeated at 11.30pm & 2.45am.】

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今夜BBC FOUR推出Chinese Schools。看了。很偶然地。(借中國外交部術語,「眾所週知」,我很久沒有在家看電視了,而且是純粹看電視,不是邊煮飯/吃飯邊看。)

好看。很好看。

好看的程度是我看完之後立刻記在下週的reminder上,提醒自己看下一集。

一連五集的Chinese Schools,集中在安徽省休寧鎮三家學校裡面的幾位同學,鏡頭跟隨他們一年,見證他們怎樣面對人生的重大關口。第一集...

廢寢忘餐的高中尖子準備高考前的月考,背負著廿多年前高考失敗的母親的一切寄望;

高中體育班的高材生,在師範大學的選拔中後來居上,暫時鬆一口氣;

快要升學的初中生,清明掃墓全家向祖先祈求保佑升讀重點高中,跟全班到黃山遊玩本來歡天喜地可是一想到升學壓力就止不住眼淚;

小學生因為在自己的橡皮(擦紙膠)上開了幾個洞,給老師當人版教了一課 『愛惜橡皮』,之後還要向全班同學老師逐一道歉;

六歲的小女孩,給選中可以入讀連書薄衣服文具也免費的平民小學,第一次可以上學。

這是套用電視攝影機做的ethnography,讓我看著幾個中國孩子,開懷歡笑、獨自垂淚、狂放高歌、埋首苦讀、躊躇滿志、惶恐不安,同時也看到他們怎樣與身邊的大人周旋,在國家的制度裡找尋空間。

這個ethnography一個難得之處,是 (暫時) 沒有流露強烈的外人觀點,即是,沒有到處尋找所謂 「異國風情」,沒有借題發揮批判呢樣個樣,而是觀察,呈現,從一個小鎮幾個案例,嘗試去摸索一個pattern。

  • 廣告:如果你從任何途徑能夠看到BBC FOUR,請注意本片集逢星期二晚9-10時播出,11.30和凌晨2.45重播。(BST)

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看此片令我想起好多年前 (忘了有沒有十年),我在自己的部門裡提出做一部 《中國新人類》的專題片集。只依稀記得,用了大概一星期寫的proposal,討論了不夠三十分鐘 (可能還不到十五分鐘),就已經否決了。除了對中國有特殊感情的摯友,大家都說,冇興趣,唔識做呢D題材,唔明有咩好睇,唔想搞專題紀錄片 ... 。(當然大家對我這個華人社會罕有的好上司,態度還是很體諒的,雖然心裡咒罵搞乜錯冇料到,還是很婉轉地說是自己能力不逮的。)

幸好沒做。以我們 ... 唏算喇,就說 「我」啦 ... 以我的功力、見識、視野、budget、機構文化,等等等等,做出來一定跟這套Chinese Schools相去甚遠。

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

第四天復活 :: Michael Clayton

(dir. Tony Gilroy, USA/UK, 2007)

At forty five.

Family and career both at loss. Finance and life both at risk.

The very essence of being is crushed.

'I'm a janitor ... The smaller the mess the easier it is for me to clean up.'

Yet when there is still something called right and wrong,

Just do that which should be done.

And be proud of it.

Albeit there is still no destination.

'Just drive.'

... resurrected on the fourth day from the smashed pieces of being ...

四十五。

家庭事業兩失意,錢財生命皆困局。

生命只餘碎片。

卻原來世界上還有對與錯。

就痛快地做那該做的吧。

然後自豪地昂首。

縱使前路依舊茫茫。

... 第四天,從生命碎片中復活 ...

Monday, 10 March 2008

神探 :: Mad Detective

Mad-Detective

(dir. Johnnie To 杜琪峰 and Wai Ka Fai 韋家輝, Hong Kong, 2007)

『我睇到人心裡面隻鬼。佢有七隻。』(I can see the ghost inside people. He has 7.)

『如果人人都有隻鬼,你冇,就係你有問題。』(If everyone has a ghost inside, and you don't, then the problem is with you.)

Abnormality = ab-NORM-ality = not the same as the others, not following the crowd.

Treading the border between the natural and the supernatural, and how the two worlds inform / intercept / interrogate / infringe upon each other.

Brilliant creative idea, beautiful directorial execution.

But, alas, the storyline messes up the logic of its own created world. (Yes, I do hold to the notion that every story, no matter how crazily fictitious and imaginary and wild it is, is supposed to have an internal logic of its own.)

So, ultimately, this film is 'dog fart cannot get through' (狗屁不通).

Falls short. What a shame.

Monday, 31 December 2007

the great reversal

Empowered by weakness.

Enriched by poverty.

Uplifted by limitations.

Capitalise on obstacles.

Embodiment of human dignity and mutuality.

This is, ultimately, grace.

「爸,挫折和困難好不好吃?」

「挺好吃的,不過你不能一口的吃,要一個一個來。」

背後故事:中央電視台《東方時空》專訪—(1) (2) (3)

【thanks to VictoriaMak through CPS】

Saturday, 29 December 2007

廣告 :: advertisement

The Head of our Divinity School, Prof. Larry Hurtado, is the presenter of an 8-part video series Devotion to Jesus: the Divinity of Christ in Earliest Christianity.  The first episode (in Flash) can be watched HERE.  Even if you are not interested in the topic (which in fact points to the very core of Christian theology), and despite the para-professional technical production standard, you can still enjoy some shots of our school and its surrounding, and see how Hurtado promotes it.

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咱院長Larry Hurtado粉墨登場,替美國Wesley Ministry Network製作的影片Devotion to Jesus:the Divinity of Christ in Earliest Christianity擔任主持,探討耶穌何時、何以、如何被最早的基督徒認定為神,涉及的問題,直指基督教神學的核心,十分過癮。

以我九十多年的媒體製作經驗來看,當然認為製作技術極具非專業水平,但是這類影片總之內容取勝,攝影剪輯一概睇開D好了。

Hurtado教授專長研究最早期基督教的形成過程,該片集可說是把他近年豐富的研究成果普及化,觀眾看八集等於攝取他近年幾本巨著的精華,十分抵玩。真正武林高手教基本紮馬,有益過D亂講廿四的納雜書或者民間傳說般的所謂福音片啦。

就算你對那個題目完全沒有興趣,也值得看看Hurtado一開場就替學院賣的廣告,欣賞敝神學院及鄰近一帶的風貌,還有一位香港同學 (不是我呀) 的側面背影硬照,大可以稍為撫慰一下各位非理性地仰慕愛丁堡的心靈。

Sunday, 2 December 2007

長江七號宣傳片 :: CJ7 trailer

I like the last line of the VO. (You need some historical knowledge of film publicity to get the parody.)

我喜歡旁述的最後一句。(這個需要一點對電影宣傳的歷史知識才知道他玩甚麼啦。)

 

Friday, 26 October 2007

Lust, infatuation, sacrifice - Gloomy Sunday

多少時候,我們喜歡認為自己在愛別人。可是更多時候,那其實不過是慾望與迷戀;若滲雜權力的遊戲,更容易淪為佔有與侵犯。到我們學懂無私地犧牲的時候,或許才能夠說,我愛。這也許是兩輩子都學不完的功課。

Men like to think that they 'love' their women.

(Well, to be fair, it is also true the other way round.  So, it's perhaps more accurate to say that humans like to think of themselves as in love with somebody.)

But quite often that is not the case.

Hans (the young entrepreneur turned SS turned entrepreneur) imagines that he loves Ilona. No, he does not.  His is only the desire to possess.  He starts with lust and ends with abuse.  When the day comes that he can make the last use of his position of power, he takes advantage to the betrayal of her as well as the one who regards him as friend.

Andras (the pianist) believes that he loves Ilona.  Partly true.  He certainly is deeply fond of her, but that falls short of love.  He probably begins with infatuation but eventually transcends it and displays traits of love.  His love is (most substantially) suggested (I won't say 'proved' here) in his will to share his royalty with the the man whom his lover also loves. 

Laszlo (the restaurant owner) loves Ilona.  He truly does.  All he wants is to let Ilona be happy and fulfilled, whatever that might mean for himself.  He is the only character who is from the beginning to the end genuinely, selflessly in love with Ilona.  Though not without jealousy (which is an inevitable reality in humanity), he is sacrificial enough to use his power (as the boss) to help the one who is supposed to be his enemy of love and also to save the latter from attempted suicide. 

Lust, infatuation, sacrifice. 

The attitudes of the three male characters toward Ilona.

These are perhaps also the fundamental attitudes that people can have in their relationship with others toward whom they are attracted. 

As humans, we like to think / believe that we love them.  A lot of time, unfortunately, we don't.  We are merely lustful or infatuated.  It may even degrade to become possessive and abusive. 

Until one day, that we can be sacrificial toward the loved ones and put their ultimate well-being as our priorities, then we can say unabashedly, yes we love.  

No, this cannot be the lesson for a life time. It is for two life times, probably. 

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Gloomy Sunday - A Song of Love and Death (Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod) (directed by Rolf Schübel, Hungary & Germany, 1999)

香港中文片名:《布達佩斯之戀》

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

國難財 :: disaster capitalism



【要求較高影音質素,請在此收看或下載 (Quick Time)】

撮要:

1940年代,醫學界發現可以用電擊震盪來「治療」精神病人,令他們從此純如綿羊。
1950年代,CIA開始套用此方法對付疑犯,令他們抵抗能力崩潰,完全乖乖聽話。

經濟學大師佛利民認為,社會跟個人行為是一樣的,經歷極大震盪之後,都會在一段時間之內失去原有的防禦能力,傾向服從指示。
於是,他把同一原理應用到推行自由市場經濟上,教各國政府領袖,有甚麼大爭議的新政策,總要趁著天災人禍之際儘快推出,快刀亂麻,過海神仙。當人們驚魂未定,政府已經搞掂了。
如此這般,乘著天災,乘著戰亂,世界上一個一個本來受保護的「市場」被打開了,市場經濟節節勝利,是為靠災難起家的資本主義 (disaster capitalism)。

有興趣者,請自行找尋此書閱讀:The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (September, 2007)

Thursday, 30 August 2007

5分46秒音樂歷史 :: history of music

Simply AWESOME!
講多無謂,自己看。

Friday, 10 August 2007

隨風飄送 :: blowing in the wind

Presented to my Hong Kong friends who are enjoying the surprise and brief visit by tropical typhoon this day:
Bob Dylan's public debut of Blowin' in the Wind (1963).

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在我遙遠的家鄉,帕布兩度急轉彎,
香港廿四小時內從沒有颱風到一號到三號到八號再回落到一號風球,
朋友都有個快樂的風的日夜吧?

謹送上Bob Dylan在1963年首度公開演唱
Blowin' in the Wind的片段,
以茲贈慶。

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

鼓動人心 :: dancing at heart


An enticing performance of madaiko Japanese drum we have watched. Perhaps a good doctoral thesis should also be able to entice the readers to embark on their studies. Do it.

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承蒙村上鴉夫人邀請,那天得以和他們一道看了鼓動人心的演出。

去的時候,都不知道原來那天是愛丁堡藝穗節開幕,市中心都封路給這個巡遊,叫我在巴士上繞著市區兜了一大圈,最後還要下車走一大段。

台上的鼓,是好鼓,因為它確實有幾刻令我很想懂得打鼓。

就如大俠靈狐冲說,令人聽完之後自己很想講道的,那就是好的宣講了。

我從前的多年拍檔杰人哥也曾說,看完之後覺得I wish I've made it的,就是好電影。

那麼,一篇好的博士論文呢?是叫人讀完之後也很想讀博士的嗎?

開工啦,咁多野講。

Tuesday, 31 July 2007

7月30安息日 :: their day of eternal rest


Michaelangelo Antonioni


29 September 1912
Ferrara, Northern Italy

30 July 2007
Rome, Italy


Ingmar Bergman


14 July 1918
Uppsala, Sweden

30 July 2007
Faro Island, Baltic Sea, Sweden


Thursday, 26 July 2007

銀幕上下繼續戰火浮生 :: more war on the silver screen


The conference 'Peacemaking in the World of Film' last weekend was in fact an overdose of good stuff. I am inevitably biased to think that presentations by my Edinburgh colleagues are among the best, as they are better grounded and more thorough in thinking.

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光影世界的和平任務』研討會議在愛丁堡舉行,我們作東道,難免頻撲,早上八時許出門,晚上十一點半過後回到家,整日體力勞動高度警覺隨時應付突如其來的技術挑戰兼且笑容可掬招呼客人。

我負責打點影音播放諸般事宜,和帶眾人從投宿的城南Pollock Halls步行到舊城的神學院,沿途介紹風光講解歷史故事風土人情,十分好玩。

烽火處處,亂世浮生,會議的內容其實可說是過份充實,以我有限的精力和能力,只能抓著片片鱗爪。當然,我不無偏見,總覺得愛丁堡團隊做的比較精采有料到,基礎穩陣而不亂鎗掃射。

久違了的Sham學兄,兩年前畢業後回到印度聯合神學院任教,此番重臨,神采飛揚。他把南印電影放在當地宗教社群衝突的脈絡中,認為電影能夠做到的,是挑動觀眾對歷史的回憶,思考共存的問題。Dwight同學則以七十年代後期在印度全國大賣座的一部土產耶穌片,對比當時流行於一般印度電影的反建制憤怒青年形象,一個強調悲憫,一個強調對抗,是為對當時該國動蕩局勢的兩種不同回應。

Amy同學力陳Blood Diamond等所謂人道電影的偽善,只不過助長西方觀眾隔岸觀火,甚至加強其種族歧視;不過她企圖鋪陳的論點太複雜,有些人聽唔明竟然以為她讚揚那些片,我掩嘴而笑。來自南非在Stirling讀電影博士的Lizzelle,亦以十多年前盧旺達種族屠殺為焦點,對比非洲本土和西方的敘述,大力鞭撻Hotel Rwanda 等西方電影,把問題簡化以討好西方觀眾口味。

Miljia同學列舉九十年代塞爾維亞內戰時期的兩套電影,認為它們雖身陷局中全無歷史距離,仍能嚴厲批判當時主流的主戰意識形態,實屬難得。德國神學人/影評人Julia同樣以巴爾幹戰事為題材,但以去年柏林金熊獎得主 Grbavica 為例,添上了十年的歷史距離,又是另一番味道。

飲者同學呢?把The Departed和《無間道》來個跨文本跨文化比較,認為The Departed反映美國主流社會文化對是非正邪的觀念沒有興趣(disinterested)、對既定的制度程序藐視或不信任(basic mistrust)、迷信槍械解決問題,足以叫全世界擔心。席間The Departed粉絲眾多,群起反攻,十分熱鬧,呵呵呵。


補充:值得留意的電影:

  • Karamayunudu (Man of Compassion; India, 1978) — 是印度本土製作的多部耶穌片之一,也是最賣座的一部。我看過多次不同片段,非常過癮,卻始終未有機會看過全片。
  • Parzania (India, 2006)
  • Grbavica (Esmas's Secret; Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, 2006) — 2006年柏林金熊獎得主,應該曾在2007年香港國際電影節放過。
  • Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame; Serbia, 1996) — 我兩年前在同學家裡看過,雖然十幾人圍著12吋電視,仍然非常震撼。
  • Ubistvo S Predumisljajem (Premeditated Murder; Serbia, 1995)

Tuesday, 24 July 2007

銀幕上下的戰火浮生 :: war and antiwar on the silver screen


The 4-day conference 'Peacemaking in the World of Film' hosted by our school ended on Sunday afternoon, leaving me completely exhausted. The four documentaries I watched (War Photographer, 2001; Long Nights Journey into Day, 2000; A Massacre Foretold, 2007; An Imam and a Pastor, 2006) added up to an experience that is beyond speech.

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四天『光影世界的和平任務』會議結束了,累得要死,腦袋空白一片。過了廿四小時,才能夠慢慢的開始回顧。

那份空白,似曾相識,就像以前拍完外景,或者做完了一次龐大的外勤製作一樣,透支,沉默。然而,那種空白其實也已經很陌生,因為畢竟很久沒有試過了。

這次會議由幾個活躍於歐洲的天主教基督教電影/媒體組織合作 (包括InterfilmSIGNISWACCGEP),由咱們愛丁堡『媒體與神學研究計畫』主力籌辦,把做製作的、寫評論的、搞學術的都集合一堂,味道跟我這幾年泡慣的純粹學術研討大不相同;關懷的,也不是理念的鑽探,而是看看在戰火連天的亂世,電影對和平到底有沒有甚麼貢獻。(這裡說的『電影』,當然是廣義的motion picture,而非『只有用傳統膠卷拍攝的才算電影』那種『a film is a film is a film』奇怪理論所定義的電影。)

如是,節目內容也不稱作「宣讀論文」(paper presentation),而叫illustrated presentation,不能對稿照讀。

會上看了幾套紀錄片,包括War Photographer (2001),講著名戰地攝影師James Natchwey在各地採訪所見所聞所想;Long Night's Journey into Day (2000) 呈現南非結束種族隔離政策之後的調查與復和工作;還有愛丁堡大學文化研究講師Nick Higgins拍的A Massacre Foretold (2007),探視九十年代墨西哥屠殺原住民部落的真相。這幾部片,看的時候,看完之後,那份重壓,久久不能言語。

最後的中午看了An Imam and a Pastor (2006),講尼日利亞/奈吉利亞持續不斷的宗教衝突裡,一個伊斯蘭教士和一個基督教牧師各自在自己的陣營裡擔當大旗手,帶領信眾打生打死,勢不兩立,後來竟然神奇地和解,初而點頭問好再而有傾有講,慢慢進展到情同手足,連兩人的老婆都搞到情同姊妹,服未?二人更拍檔巡迴全國向兩教信徒宣揚和好的福音,率直溫情,笑出眼淚,令人覺得世界還是可以有點盼望的。片後,來自尼日利亞、研究宗教衝突的Israel同學分享國內情勢,遙遠陌生的國度頓然變得不再遙遠。

漫天烽火,水深火熱,世界上多少人在民族存亡的線上喘息、在貧窮飢餓的邊緣掙扎、天天在生死之間徘迴。再次叫我慨歎,咱們香港人竟然看自己為世界的中心,不斷為芝麻綠豆吵鬧二十多年,自我燒耗,不知天地之大,可笑可憐。

Saturday, 30 June 2007

超越科幻片想像 :: beyond the science fiction

From LibraryThing's thingology blog:

令人目瞪口呆的圖像處理技術,從微軟實驗室裡拿出來示範的Photosynth。

文字無法形容,自己看:(請注意現場聽眾的驚嘆)



source: TED 2007

link: Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

Sunday, 29 April 2007

星期日娛樂 … 笑吓啦!

絕到爆的路牌和告示,讓我在星期日早上狂笑了好一頓 …