撿起放下墜落提起 It follows It passes on
2023 | 5 min | 16mm to digital | color & b/w
這部片從兩個金門印象出發：一是爸爸的朋友告訴我，他們小時候在金門，砲彈來襲的時候，為了不被發現位置，只能燒香，用它微弱的光照路。二是想著爸爸會從金門的沙灘上帶回歷代漂上岸的碎瓷器。再製這些印象的過程，就好像把文物和歷史放進了玻璃櫃，是有距離的觀看。就像那些爸爸偶爾透露出的戰地童年往事，情緒隱藏其中，也不再說了，人生繼續。
This film creates a container for a private ritual to reconnect to Kinmen, a Taiwanese island, during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in the 1960s. The filmmaker reimagines her father’s childhood experience with the sparse memories he shared with her. The light was reenacted, the spirits were summoned. A tender gaze attempts to look through and experience beyond the light glares as if understanding a silent parent in the crack of the historical events.
Incense yields a little light and leads the way for the islanders to hide from bombing. Broken dishes time travel. Imaginations of a post-war island, Kinmen, from familial anecdotes. Tracing the roots of cross-generational sentiments behind the glare of glasses, the display of a self-made museum. Lights reveal and conceal the stories.
“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
- Anne Carson (The Beauty of the Husband, I.1-5)
︎ installation
until there is no more sound from afar | 香火 (2022)