How Old Are You? How Old Were You? 入世
2017 / 15:50 / Color / Sound / 1.33:1 / USA / Original format: 16mm / Partially hand-tinted, OP, and lab processed and printed
Shot on 16mm film using a handmade camera obscura, How Old Are You? How Old Were You? fractures the logic of time to contemplate bringing oneself back to the origin, the womb. A dialogue between two selves – infant and adult, the film traverses through a series of psychological events, transforming memories, emotions, thoughts and imagination.
《入世》，利用早期的攝影暗箱技術（camera obscura），挑戰超現實的意象敘事。重回子宮，讓已經成人的自己，與出生前的自己，展開一場時空錯位的對話。對話中，過去的記憶，從定格中開始活動，隨意識所至而產生變化；已成歷史的事件，隨宇宙自然的更迭易位，延伸出了新的解讀。創作這部電影是希望能創造一場出世入世的心理體驗，並在穿越的過程中，思考人生。
Artist statement:
How Old Are You? How Old Were You? is a film about me and my mother. My mother and I were separated not very long after I was born. When we reunited 30 years later, she told me that throughout all those years she felt a hole in her body. The image of the hole stuck with me and lingered, and that is how the movie began. The film was shot with camera obscura to create an interplay between the real and ultra-realistic, and a fragmented sense of historical time and space. The Chinese title "Entry into the World" quotes the term "birth in the world" from Buddhism, implying that life enters the world as an embryo, undergoes training and maturity, and then realizes the joys and sorrows of the world, which is the journey of enlightenment.
創作理念：
《入世》是一部關於我和媽媽的作品。三十年後重逢時，她告訴我，這些年來她總覺得自己身上有一個洞。於是那個洞的形象便停駐在我的腦海中揮之不去，而電影就這樣開始了。此片利用暗箱拍攝，穿梭於寫實與超寫實的斷片時空，冥想現在與過去。片名《入世》引用佛家語中的出世一詞，暗示人生由胚胎進入這個世界，經歷磨練與成熟，而後悟得了人世間的悲歡離合，即是一段入世出世的歷程。
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Performers: Enoch Song, Zheng Fu