共鳴——喚說其語:Ep.1 潛入西拉雅——即時影像

Kuan-Yuan LAI

Taiwan、Germany〡2020〡Exp〡Color〡17 min〡Taiwanese, Mandarin, English, Sirayan
✧ 2020 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
✧ 2021 Finalist BiFan Beyond Reality XR, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

SPEAK TO AWAKEN: EP.1 DIVING INTO SIRAYA is a speech-based interactive experimental VR documentary of Sirayan, a dormant indigenous language in Taiwan, which makes the audience gain the experience of using and thinking about the endangered language while immersing on its revitalization road.

This is a playthrough (live-recorded) video of a VR documentary Speak to Awaken: Ep.1 Diving into Siraya. The audience will generate a synchronicity with the experiencer at the time, and go through the time course. Reproduced via 2D video, the audience breaks through the time and space of the media and resonates with it, then becomes an extension of time images and experiences.

Director

Kuan-Yuan LAI

LAI Kuan-Yuan, born in Taipei in 1981, a film director, CG graphist, XR content creator, and also the founder of Poké Poké Creative Studio, Taiwan. He graduated from a film school, Shih-Hsin University in Taiwan and an animation school SUPINFOCOM in France. He’s committed to independent production and multi-media visual arts work. Most of his works consider the relationship between environment, culture, life and people from the perspective of the land. Sci-fi utopia themes, locality and worldwide issues in folklore/event/environment etc. have always been a rich resource for his artistic creation.

11.13 ㊐ 10:30〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡 Q&A session with the Director
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以VR互動的嶄新形式引導觀眾跟著說出西拉雅語的單字,強而有力告訴我們西拉雅語並未死去,信仰、祭儀也都還在,文化的保存和傳承並不是空談,一切都是進行式。

Thinking generated from listening and speaking is a process of language use. This film is about making the audience feel and summoning the existence of language, and meanwhile having the experience of thinking and usage. Such experiences not only make them approach Sirayan more, but also convey the film’s concept to people and understand the main idea of the film is the importance of “willing to use language” during language revitalization…. Listening, watching and occasional interactions enable you to move forward along this visualised road. Speaking Sirayan words and phrases allows you to weave between scenes along the Sirayan soundwave. Audio recordings of different languages float in the space, with soundwaves fluctuating according to the language of the scene the audience is witnessing.

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