My note on the lecture Politics of the image in Taipei University of Arts（我的不小心入鏡 XD）
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My note on the lecture Politics of the image in Taipei University of Arts“Imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light across the whole width of the cave; in this they have been from childhood, with necks and legs fettered, so they have to stay where they are.
They cannot move their heads round because of the fetters, and they can only look forward, but lights comes to them from fire burning behind them higher up at a distance. Between the fire and the prisoners is a road above their level, and along it imagine a low wall has been built, as puppet showmen have screens in front of their people over which they work their puppets’ ….
’Now consider,’ said I ‘what their release would be like, and their cure from these fetters and their folly; let us imagine whether it might naturally be something like this. One might be released, and to walk and look towards the firelight; all this would hurt him, and be would be much too dazzled to see distinctly those things whose shadows he had seen before. What do you think he would say, if someone told him that what he saw before was foolery, but now he saw more rightly, being a bit nearer reality and turned towards what was a little more real? What if he were shown each of one was? Don’t you think he would be puzzled, and believe what he saw before was more true than what was shown to him now? "
"Far more" said he. Plato, The Republic, Book VII.
檔案與居所
史丹利庫柏力克 (Stanley Kubrick 1997) 在製作《大開眼界》（Eyes Wide Shut）的後期，心臟病發而死亡。人們開始對他在倫敦近郊的居所產生興趣，因為，據說他是一位鉅細靡遺的自我檔案管理者，把歷年電影拍攝的過程所留下的文件材料都悉心分類並擺放在家中。這些文件包括在拍片前製階段蒐集的電影相關素材，例如，在《大開眼界》中為了一幕五秒的門逕場景，僅僅在倫敦伊斯林頓區他便蒐集上百張門徑照片，為的是尋找最理想的門面場景。他悉心為了每個區域場景的拓樸調查製作個別的檔案箱。在拍攝完成一部電影後，他會將相關研究，文件，材料等分別放置在特製的紙箱裡。封箱也就代表一件作品的完成，他便能為下一部作品展開新的構思。因此在庫柏力克的居處四處擺放著他的電影檔案。英國衛報專欄作者喬恩-朗森 (Jon Ronson) 還為此製作了一部紀錄片「史丹利庫柏力克的盒子(2008)」（Stanly Kubrick's boxes）。
文／楊照
這是一部我很想把所有細節寫下來的錄像作品。
Lindsay Seers 在 Tate Britain Triennial Altermodern 的作品 Extramission6 Black Maria 大概是目前我看過最驚悚的類紀錄片吧。 回想了一下，似乎在分類裡確實是沒有恐怖驚悚類紀錄片，這樣的分類 （有嗎？）。
這是一部類紀錄片述說Seers的生活 這部紀錄片 穿插著對母親與心理專家的訪問，以及，她把自己當作攝影機以及投影機的心理轉折紀錄。所以這件作品 不只是半自傳式的紀錄 更是具有介於 影像科技歷史，精神分析多樣來回指涉的張力。 (繼續閱讀...)]]>
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