Excuse Me, Miss! 不好意思，小姐！
2023 / 12:54 / Color / Sound / 1.85:1 / USA / Original format: 16mm, found footage, mixed media > 35mm / Hand processed
Excuse Me, Miss! looks at Los Angeles from the perspective of a recent immigrant, observing things that are quietly changing the face of the city. The film's title refers to the woman with a camera, whose filming is itself both an expression of presence and an intervention. The act of filming is entangled with the city landscape and interacts in the lives of those who pass by while recording.
《不好意思，小姐！》以一個新移民的視角看洛杉磯，觀察正在悄然改變城市面貌的事物。這部電影的名稱所指拿著相機的人，她的拍攝本身既是一種存在的表達，也是一種干預。拍攝的行為與城市景觀糾纏在一起，在記錄的同時與路過的人的生活互動。
Artist statement:
In 2023, my father passed away. I reread the works of Baudelaire and Benjamin and was once again attracted by the Flâneur’s fascination with the world and wandering life. The Arcades Project inspired me to look at a city carefully and slowly and think about how people from different backgrounds position themselves in the city, just as I am beginning to slowly understand Los Angeles, this complex city— joys and sorrows, beauty and ugliness, exclusion and intimacy, strange things, and all kinds of people and landscapes.
創作動機：
2023年父親過世，我重讀波特萊爾和班雅明的作品，再一次被漫遊者（Flâneur）那樣地著迷於世間百態和漫遊生活所吸引。《拱廊計畫》啟發了我去細細慢慢看待一座城市，想著來自不同背景的人們如何在城市中定位自己，如同我正在開始慢慢地了解洛杉磯這座複雜的城市——喜怒哀樂，美與醜，排擠與親密，奇奇怪怪的事，千萬般風貌的人與風景。
Notebook
“The camera as feminist tool; claiming physical space on the street, whilst also charting the city’s hidden reverse.”
— Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023