A NEW OLD PLAY

09.09 ㊅ 〡國家電影及視聽文化中心 小影格〡★ Q&A session with the Director

美學極為獨特，融合電影、繪畫、劇場，由牛頭馬面接引渡橋，緩緩捲開一部魔幻綿長的川劇家族史詩。

Growing up in the daily reality of an opera troupe, I suppose I had an odd, piecemeal view of this world, seen only from the inside as a moving collage of faces, expressions, voices, gestures, sounds, smells and colours, warm or cold, damp or dry, drunk or sober. The actors' gestures, crazy, bitter or sincere, their swirling arms and stamping feet, marked the successive scenes in an unfolding play. And meanwhile, events great and small, on and off the stage, shaped the world and our history. But every now and then a knell would sound, and there was one less spectator in the stalls. In designing the sets to frame these slowly unfolding lives, I have chosen a simple craft approach, using a cartoon-strip idiom to capture the atmosphere of the period, in a “naïve” work inspired by the joy of the birth of cinema and nurtured by the tradition of silent film. The simply-crafted caricature props evoke this Lilliputian world hovering between reality and fantasy. Actors bob up and down on a river made of plastic sheeting, ride skinny horses woven of thatch, chew cotton clouds, and get lost in steamy fog and burning smoke.

11.05 ㊅ 20：50〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡★ Q&A session with the Director
11.10 ㊃ 12：00〡台南新光影城 4 廳
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