章夢奇《自畫像：47公里之死》放映暨映後談
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-moderator: Yiping Lin, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Monday, September 30, 2024
Time: 4:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
The discussion will be conducted in English and Mandarin Chinese (with translation).
“Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM” is the fifth film of Zhang Mengqi’s “Self-Portraits” series made in her hometown village which she named 47KM, near Suizhou in Hubei Province. This year, her grandpa passed away. What does the village mean to her without her grandpa? She started to search for stories about death in the village: unnatural deaths in history, bizarre deaths in reality, and deaths fuelled by hatred … “In the mundane daily life accompanied by so many deaths,” she asks, “how should she understand death?”
Zhang Mengqi is a filmmaker and choreographer. She has participated in The Folk Memory Project since 2011 and has curated and co-organized the “Film for Mother” Festival since 2021. Zhang has made 11 feature-length documentaries known as the “Self-Portraits series”, a decade-long creative documentation about her hometown village near Suizhou City, Hubei Province. Her films have been selected by Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, BFI London Film Festival, and the Museum of the Moving Image, and have won awards at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, among others. Her choreographic work has been performed at the Foundation CULTURESCAPES (Switzerland), Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (France), ImPuls Tanz (Vienna), and Eurokaz (Croatia).
導演自述：
這是我在「47公里」創作的第五部影片。這一年我的爺爺過世了，沒有了爺爺的村子對我代表什麼？因為爺爺的過世，我開始在村子裡尋找死亡故事。歷史中的非正常死亡、現實中離奇的死亡、由仇恨發酵的死亡……在這樣一個由無數「死亡」組成的日常生活中，我該如何來理解死亡？
章夢奇，紀錄片和劇場創作者。 自 2010 年起參與「民間記憶計劃」, 2021 年起策劃並聯合組織「母親影展」。章夢奇的「自畫像」系列紀錄片和劇場創作以其家鄉湖北省隨州市殷店鎮釣魚台村——「47公里」為基點，在探尋歷史與照亮現實之間持續長達13年的創作。
《自畫像》系列紀錄片作品曾多次入選法國真實電影節、瑞士尼翁真實電影節、BFI 倫敦電影節等；並獲得韓國 DMZ 紀錄片電影節國際最佳紀錄片白鵝獎 ，釜山國際電影節最佳紀錄片獎，西班牙 Punto de Vista 電影節最佳導演及觀眾選擇獎，山形國際紀錄片電影節國際競賽單元優秀獎等。「自畫像」系列劇場作品曾在瑞士 Foundation CULTURESCAPES 藝術節，法國青年舞蹈交流季，維也納 ImPuls Tanz 舞蹈節，克羅埃西亞 ZKM 青年劇場等國際戲劇舞蹈節演出。
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