解放與挪用：檔案變形記

個人與國族的故事、歷史輾壓的印記，以及與家人朋友相處的時光，都凝結於影像載體之中。創作者們拆解既存影音，從原脈絡中提取出不同元素，挪用至精心佈置的陌生場景，進而構築出全新場域與敘事。

這些創作手法顛覆並解放檔案的形式與內容，從中挖掘媒材特性、形塑出刺探政經、社會、文化、個人家庭等關係的美學策略，用以質問過去、現在與未來之間的關聯與轉變。

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National Anarchist: Lino Brocka

Lino Brocka received posthumously the National Artist Award—the highest honour given by the Philippine government—in 1997, six years after his death at 52. But he considered himself an ultimate anarchist. His tirades serve as intertitles. Images, sounds, and music culled from his sixty-plus features. The ultimate homage and deconstruction of the man and his oeuvre.

'Lino Brocka is dead! Long live The Brockas!' - Khavn DE LA CRUZ

The Veiled City

The Veiled City is a sci-fi city symphony inspired by London's Great Smog of 1952. Merging reality with fiction, the film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.

The Film You Are about to See

The film you're about to see incorporates real material from film history. However, any collusion between art and industry, conflict between freedom of creation and the law, or any hint of moralism in the life of images, are purely unintentional.

Between Delicate and Violent

The video links the director's past to imagination and creation, exploring themes like domestic violence, intergenerational trauma, and resistance. The film considers hands as memory places that can both accumulate and transfer memories. Through hands and their creations, it imagines unearthing lost memories that have not been included in performative, socially acceptable family albums.

Family Trips

Over 60 years ago, my father embarked on a one-way trip to Kaohsiung, settling in Liuhe Night Market. From there, he became a Japanese tour guide. The pandemic suspended his work, prompting a reflection on the past. This film is a personal journey, exploring the intimate bond formed during outings with my father's tour group.

Private Footage

In 2018, the filmmaker discovered a 16mm footage online, capturing a white family's trip to South Africa during the 1960s. The seemingly innocent scenes triggered an insatiable investigation. In a meticulous desktop sequence, Nagata dissected the footage, revealing hidden Apartheid narratives, and transforming the private archive into a poignant exploration of South Africa's troubled past.

Broken View

A poetic essay film on the colonial gaze and the magic lantern. This early type of image projector was used in Belgian colonial propaganda, showcasing the good works of the Church, State, and industry. Lantern projections were an effective way of selling the colonial project to a somewhat reluctant Belgian public.

Between Revolutions

In 1970s Bucharest, Zahra and Maria formed a deep friendship during university. As political turmoil brewed in Iran, Zahra was forced to return home, leaving Maria behind. They stayed connected through letters, chronicling their struggles as women in countries moving in divergent directions. Despite the distance and obstacles, their longing for each other remained strong.

An Asian Ghost Story

This film is about haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernisation, beginning with a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the 'Communist Hair Ban'.

24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China

Surveillance footage of factory gates from Chinese companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange is recontextualised through a historical lens, spanning a century of cinematic history to explore the evolution from workers' rights to contemporary capitalism's labour dynamics.

Appropriate Appropriation: Archive and More

Stories of individuals and nations, traces of trampling by History, and time with family and friends are all frozen in the carrier of image. Through deconstructing pre-existing footage, artists extract various elements from the original context, appropriating and integrating them into well-crafted settings, creating sites for new narratives.

Such creative approaches liberate the forms and content of archives, in order to explore the qualities of medium and formulate subversive aesthetic strategies which probe the relations regarding political economy, society, culture, individual, and family as well as interrogate the connection and transformation of past, present and future.

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