Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Shek O's Sophie
















認識了Sophie很久了.

[打電話是這樣叫她: Sop-Pphiee 把尾音拉長 或叫她 Soph]

我們一起在墨兒本讀大學.是已經認識了十幾年了好友.由當初Year 1那時戰戰兢兢對自己,還有自己的英語能力沒什麼自信,到後來我們一起在巴黎和Amsterdam當背包客, 還有和她與其他同學去了幾趟那個讓我學懂騎單車是什麼一回事十天單車團 (Great Victorian bike ride),當然還有很多很多其他的..

S的個性很強,也不是一般的Aussie,可能是因為她有兒時在法國長大的經歷,還有她的一半東歐(Cezh)的血統吧.

我們不是常常見面聊天的.但每過一陣子,我們便會聊天,也會是比較深入交心的談話.
S幾天前來了香港住了幾天, 下一站是芬蘭的Alvar Alto conference.

上一次S來香港的時候正好是四年前,也正是世界盃時期.那時的我和我身邊的人和事跟現在的已經有些不同了.

期望下一次再見到她時,我兩再一次互相說說笑笑大家萬變的狀況…

Friday, July 21, 2006

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Listening "double vie" on a summer full moon night
















Have only watched "The Double Life of Veronika" 兩生花 on vedio 10 years ago. It's gonna be quite an experience watching it in theatre (from the 1st row) tomorrow night. As it has always been on my list of favourite, both the film and the music.

Film festival web site
http://bc.cinema.com.hk/adhoc/krzysztof_kieslowski/movie_double.html

Film festival trailer
http://bc.cinema.com.hk/adhoc/krzysztof_kieslowski/festival.html

The music is very good too.
The soundtrack of Kieslowski's film "The Double Life of Veronika"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000G5VW/104-2736949-3228763?v=glance&n=5174

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The Double Life of Veronique
La Double Vie de Veronique


1991-France/Poland-Romantic Drama/Psychological DramaN.Y. Times Review by Caryn James

PLOT DESCRIPTION

The Double Life of Véronique is the story of two young women who are -- in some mysterious and irresolvable way -- the same woman leading two different yet interconnected lives. Those familiar with Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's later "Three Colors" trilogy of Blue, White, and Red will recognize his fascination with accidental happenings and chance encounters, as well as Irène Jacob (from Red) whose performance as both Veronika and Veronique won the 1991 Cannes Film Festival award for best actress. Veronika and Véronique are born on the same day in 1966, one in Poland, the other in France. They grow up separately, unaware of each other's existence, but with the vague and rarely expressed feeling that they are "not alone." The story begins in Poland, where Veronika (like Véronique) is a talented vocalist and music student who wins a prestigious singing competition and is given the chance to perform with a local symphony. On the night of the concert, while singing a duet onstage, Veronika loses consciousness and dies. Véronique is emotionally wounded by the loss of her double and decides to end her singing career. The film charts the effect of Veronika's death on Véronique and on her dispassionate and unsatisfying relationships with men, especially her father. She is led to puppeteer and children's book author Alexandre Fabbri (Philippe Volter), whose puppet shows and stories are dramatic variants on her own mysterious problem. While looking through photographs of Véronique's trip to Poland, Fabbri discovers a picture of Veronika walking through a student demonstration in Kracow. He shows the picture to Véronique, who intuits the significance of Veronika's perfect likeness to herself. ~ Anthony Reed, All Movie Guide

Friday, July 07, 2006

出三峽













這兩天在讀朋友W給我介紹的[出三峽記].她把書借給我的時候估計沒有錯.我真的很喜歡這本書,而且把書一早還給她,原因是看到有一本擱在學校書店的書架上, 沒多想便把書買下來了.

作者晉永權現工作於<<中國青年報>>,於這五年內,走訪因為興建三峽水壩工程而被政府搬遷的居民.書內不只是圖片,而且有一個一個移民背後的故事.幸好作者也沒有過于煽情.而是從基層[grass root]反映出一個ground situation的狀態. 讓讀者去認識一些代表了十六萬三峽移民戶的生活歷史. 其中牽動著:社會,宗族,家庭,集體記憶…

因為還沒讀完.過幾天讓腦袋好好清理.再多寫點…


[出三峽記]
作者晉永權
北京三聯書店出版 2006年










Have been reading this Chinese book called出三峽記 chu sanxai ji [Noted on Emigration from the Three Gorges] the last two days. It was recommended by my friend W. Her guess was right when she lent it to me that I would love it so much. At the end I returned the book to her the next day as I found one selling at the university book store. I’ve got to have my own copy.

The author currently works at the中國青年報Chinese Youth News. In the past five years, he had visited towns and villages at the three gorges where they will be flooded because of the super dam project. He has met different people throughout his visits. In the book, there are not just photos but also one after one story of these emigrants. Fortunate enough, the author wasn’t a sensationalist. He shows an honest voice to describe these emigrants from a grass root level. The numbers of stories being told here enable the readers to get closer to these one hundred and sixty thousands emigrants, about their living history. And then it’s all about society, family lineage, home, and collective memory.

Still got half of the book to be finished shall drop a few more words later.

Monday, July 03, 2006

Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9












The core idea is the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme it symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of liquid Vaseline, called “The Field”, which is molded, poured, bisected and reformed on the deck of the ship over the course of the film.

Trailer of the documentary film on the making of "Drawing Restraint 9"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wN3TohDaoCQ

Bjork's music for the film:
http://unit.bjork.com/specials/dr9/

reviews include trailer of the film "Drawing Restraint 9":
http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=8782

more info on Barney's Drawing Restraint series:
http://www.drawingrestraint.net/