(Boston Orange)哈佛電影檔案館將於6月4日(週一)晚7點，放映臺灣導演趙德胤(Midi Z)的作品”翡翠之城”。導演本人將出席映後座談。
這是紐約台北文化中心安排的”趙德胤電影巡迴展”，從6月2日起至10日，在美國紐約動態影像博物館(Museum of the Moving Image)、波士頓哈佛電影資料館(Harvard
Film Archive)與華盛頓特區費利爾薩克勒美術館(Freer & Sackler
Galleries)等地，巡演5部趙德胤的作品。
6月4日晚在哈佛電影檔案館放映的是2016ˊ拍攝的”翡翠之城”，有英語字幕。
臺灣金馬獎傑出影人趙德胤 攜新片展開美國巡迴展
備受國際影壇注目的臺灣導演趙德胤，作品將於6月2日至10日在美國紐約動態影像博物館(Museum
of the Moving Image)、波士頓哈佛電影資料館(Harvard Film Archive)與華盛頓特區費利爾薩克勒美術館(Freer & Sackler Galleries)巡演，趙德胤並將出席映後座談。
紐約臺北文化中心指出，趙德胤是臺灣電影新浪潮後最值得期待的新導演之一，他的電影主題一致，獨特的視覺美學及人文關懷超越國界限制，不但刺激了外界對於臺灣電影的定義與想像，更以作品題材被世界觀眾看見的必要性，建立他在國際影壇上的位置，此次巡迴展希望能讓美國觀眾看見臺灣當代電影豐富而多元的發展。
趙德胤為緬甸華僑，作品多描述緬甸華人的離散命運與異鄉人的處境，以寫實的電影形式與創新美學獨樹一幟，知名導演侯孝賢曾說「他看到很多我們看不到的事」。2011年以第一部長片《歸來的人》開始在國際影壇嶄露頭角，將移民在邊界流動的生存狀態帶入國際視野，並以《再見瓦城》獲得威尼斯影展歐洲電影聯盟大獎最佳影片。2016年更以「拓寬臺灣電影的領域及定義」獲頒第53屆金馬獎年度臺灣傑出電影工作者。
該活動由中華民國文化部贊助、駐美代表處臺灣書院及駐紐約臺北文化中心共同主辦、駐波士頓臺北經濟文化辦事處協辦，將於6月2日至10日期間在紐約、波士頓及華盛頓特區等地放映趙德胤5部作品，詳情請上tpecc.org/網站查詢。
電影放映資訊(以網站公布為準)
THE
FILMS OF MIDI Z
June
2 - 10, 2018
The Taipei Cultural Center in New
York is thrilled to announce the screening tour featuring a selection of works
by Midi Z, the promising auteur in international cinema, will kick off Saturday
June 2 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York with the U.S. premiere of
his latest documentary 14 APPLES, which was selected at the 2018 Berlinale
Forum.
From June 2 through June 10, taking
place at the Museum of the Moving Image, Harvard Film Archive, and the Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, this screening tour presents the
latest survey of Midi Z’s work to date. Midi Z will be in attendance
for post-screening conversations about his unique vision and minimalist
aesthetics.
Midi Z is a Myanmar-born and
Taiwan-based director who has established himself as a vital new voice in
international cinema since making his directorial debut RETURN TO BURMA in
2011. A protégé of the acclaimed director Hou Hsiao-hsien, Midi Z expands
the scope and definition of Taiwan cinema by constructing films around the
living and working conditions of the people from the fringes of society—migrant laborers and minority groups who risk their lives
undertaking illicit work.
Drawing inspiration from his Burmese
background and the personal experiences of his family, Midi Z addresses themes
of poverty and displacement in his native country with compassion and peerless
intimacy. Some of his powerful works include ICE POISON, the Best International
Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival; CITY OF JADE, which premiered at the
Berlinale 2016 and nominated for Best Documentary at the Asia Pacific Screen
Awards; and THE ROAD TO MANDALAY, the winner of the Fedeora Award for Best Film
at Venice Days 2016.
FILM SCHEDULE AND
DESCRIPTION
* IN PERSON APPEARANCES
14 Apples *U.S. Premiere
2018/84 mins/In Burmese with
English subtitles
In Myanmar, a man named Wang
Shin-hong is suffering from insomnia. A fortune-teller advises that he should
become a monk, living in a temple and eating an apple a day for fourteen days.
In this moving and personal documentary, Midi Z films the process, an
experience that allows him to return to the poverty he experienced in his
childhood and the religion that deeply influenced his life.
*Sat
June 2, 3:30pm at the Museum of the Moving Image
*Sun
June 10, 2:00pm at Freer Gallery of
Art
City of Jade
2016/99 mins/In Southwestern
Mandarin, Burmese with English subtitles
Currently, Myanmar is undergoing
some form of democratization; however, it is not a linear process in terms of
time. As the war between the government and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)
is still going, the corporations are forced to halt their operation in the jade
mines. Time seems to have frozen in this war zone while waves of poor workers
flock to the area. Carrying simple digging tools, they arrive in this paradise,
dreaming of getting rich overnight; none of them has ever woken from that
dream.
Maybe we should rewind the time
back to sixteen years ago. Rumour had it that Midi’s brother found a piece of
valuable jade in the paradise while his family was down to their last penny. On
behalf of their parents, Midi, the youngest child in the family, wrote more
than a hundred letters to his elder brother, asking him to send money home, but
they never heard anything from him. It turned out that his elder brother not
only spent all his money on his way home but got arrested and sent to jail for
drug abuse. His hard-earned cash was squandered just like that, and Midi never
forgave his brother. Later as fortune smiled on Midi, he left his home as well
as poverty behind and arrived in Taiwan for his studies, learning to become a
man of rational thinking.
Sun June 3, 3:30pm at the Museum
of the Moving Image
*Mon
June 4, 7:00pm at Harvard Film Archive
*Sat
June 9, 2:00pm at Freer Gallery of Art
The Road to Mandalay
2016/108 mins/In Southwestern
Mandarin, Thai with English subtitles
The human-traffickers have a
well-established route: from Burma into Thailand across the Mekong River at
Tchilek, along quiet country roads, passing bribed police checkpoints and into
Bangkok, where the illegal migrants are on their own. Lianquing is one of five
illegals who travels this route one summer night in 2013; along the way a
fellow migrant called Guo is kind to her, and their fates later become
entwined. Once in Thailand, Lianqing finds 'underground' jobs, saves money and
finds out where to buy fake identity papers with the hope of making it to
Taiwan. But Guo has different ambitions...
*Sun
June 3, 6:00pm at the Museum of the Moving Image
*Fri
June 8, 7:00pm at Freer Gallery of Art
Ice Poison
2014/95 mins/In Southwestern Mandarin, Burmese with English subtitles
With Wu Ke-xi, Wang Shin-hong. With crop prices weak, a
Burmese farmer pawns his cow for an old motorcycle so that his son can take
passengers to town for extra income. The new business is fruitless until the
son meets a young woman who is involved with the risky but lucrative business
of transporting crystal meth. This meticulously executed and mesmerizing story
captures the changes occurring in Myanmar under capitalism. The film was
Taiwan’s official entry to the 2015 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language
Film.
Sun June 3, 1:30pm at the Museum of the Moving Image
Return to Burma
2011/85 mins/In Southwestern Mandarin, Burmese
with English subtitles
When Myanmar finally holds its
first presidential election, Xing-hong, a Burmese construction worker in
Taiwan, returns home with hopes that change will come to his country. Return to
Burma was the first feature film shot in Myanmar. During the time of filming,
Myanmar’s presidential election had just taken place. But democracy was far
from thriving, and the government only allowed limited foreign press into the
country. As a result, Midi Z had to shoot this semi-autobiographical homecoming
story without official permission, and only minimal equipment and crew.
Sat June 2, 1:30pm at the Museum
of the Moving Image
