#Congratulations! Director Hsin-Chien Huang's latest VR works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach, were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival!
The 78th Venice International Film Festival (VIFF) announced the shortlisted nominees for the category of VR Film. Taiwanese new media artist, Distinguished Professor of NTNU, Hsin-Chien Huang, winner of the BEST VR Experience in 2017 with his work La Camera Insabbiata, will again contest for the Leone d’oro this year with two of his latest, sci-fi inspired works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach. While the Taiwanese athletes are striving for the Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics as we speak, director Hsin-Chien Huang dazzles the jury of VIFF with his visually-stunning and thought-provoking works — bringing cutting-edge Taiwanese VR films onto the international stage and letting world-wide audience sees Taiwan!
Before being selected for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Samsara episode 1. has already grabbed the Jury Award at SXSW and Best VR Story at the Cannes XR Competition. This futuristic VR experience teleports the audience onto a journey that spans millions of years. Samsara is a Sanskrit word meaning “ the world ”. In Buddhism, it means what we perceive as the world is actually an endless cycle of karma (cause and effect), a cycle of life, death and rebirth in the six realms of existence. In this fascinating VR work, the audience is reincarnated into the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing the universe in their new bodies and in search for the ultimate spiritual transcendence.
Samsara depicts an apocalyptical story in the near future where human greed has depleted the earth’s resource. Catastrophic wars to fight for resource resulted in global destruction. Finally, the remaining humans had to leave the Earth and go on a search in space for a new place to live.
Nevertheless, their desperate, long quest for a new homeland… could it be just a loop in space and time? The cycle of greedy domination and total destruction that then necessitates the search for a new home…. may have hopelessly repeated itself over and over again? The constant evolutionary process and so-called progress, without transformation in consciousness and spiritual advancement, is nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere, perhaps…?
Samsara is an experiment based on the theory of Embodied Cognition. Through interactivity and VR, the audience gets to live inside the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing their feelings from within. Perhaps It is when we can perceive the world in different bodies that we may truly appreciate the thoughts of others and empathize with them. An experience that will also help us better comprehend our own existence and learn to live in harmony with all.
Samsara explores a complex of deeply interconnected issues of ecology, technology, natural resource and war, etc. It's a story about a journey humans are forced to take on, after having destroyed the earth with nuclear disasters. The survivors seek a new planet, in the boundless, interstellar space, to carry on their lives. Gradually they evolve into a new life form artificially. Yet, many years passed and they’ve come to realize that they would never make it to the new planet they’ve been dreaming of. In fact, they have simply been returning to the Earth, in different life forms, time after time.
Director Huang applies the concepts of embodied cognition, offering a unique way to contemplate about the nature of life. As the audience are transported into different bodies each time, they gain a brand new perspective to experience the world views presented in Samsara.
Samsara was produced under the guidance of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Kaohsiung Film Archive VR(VR FILM LAB), it’s a sate-of-the-art VR production made 100% in Taiwan. In the VR experience, viewers are transformed into various kinds of animals to interact with the scenes, including species unique and indigenous to Taiwan, such as Taiwan Blue Magpie and Formosan Black Bear.
Samsara Ep.1 features the latest somatosensory technology, including 4D views shooting techniques by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and TAICCA. A digital shooting system comprised of a high-sensitivity 4 million-pixel, full-color CCD sensor and 48 4DV-EX-Z cameras made it possible for Samsara Ep.1 to be taken from an omnidirectional view and shot without any blind spots, creating the ultimate immersive experience.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH, directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and produced in cooperation with Lucid Reality (France) and Oready 瑞意創科 Oready Innovation Lab (Taiwan), is a scientific fairy tale about a unique ecological wonder in Taiwan and Japan, the shiny starry sand beaches. Foraminifera, from the Latin word “foramen” meaning hole, is a single-celled organism that builds a shell with multiple chambers which intercommunicate with one another through holes. On the Qimei Island, Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan, beaches have been formed by a specific species of foraminifera with star-shaped shells made of calcium carbonate. Like the real stars in the legends, grains of the starry sand have also been preserving the earth’s memories for millions of years.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH is a real-time 3D interactive VR adventure into the natural and mythological landscape of the starry sand beaches on Qimei Island in Penghu Archipelago, Xing Sha Wan in Kenting National Park and Taketomi Island in the far south of Japan. The experience is full of aesthetically-amazing elements and enriched with cultural and religious significance like Shintoism in Japan. A beautiful, haunting legend tells the story of the starry sand…
The final winners will be presented at the award ceremony held on Sep11. With great anticipation and hopes, Hsin-Chien Huang is expected to bring home again the grand prize for Taiwan!
https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/selection-complete-works-venice-vr-expanded-0
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在評審團主席史派克李提前爆雷的烏龍中,坎城影展迎來史上第二位女性金棕櫚得主。
法國女導演茱莉亞迪古何諾生涯第二部劇情長片《鈦》,在名導雲集的坎城影展摘下最高榮譽金棕櫚。這是繼 1993 年珍康萍《鋼琴師與她的情人》之後,相隔 28 年再度有女性導演抱回此獎,在坎城影展至今 80 餘年的悠悠歷史中,難能可貴地寫下唯二紀錄。
影史第二位女性導演拿下金棕櫚,這件事情遭各界熱議,然而茱莉亞迪古何諾在頒獎前幾日,與外媒《IndieWire》就有談到「性別」議題,她表示:「我不認為『性別』能定義我們。然而,這還不是社會所能理解的事情,所以它成為一個話題。作為一個女人,我根本不希望透過性別來定義我,人們總說我是女導演,其實有點煩,因為我是一個人,我是導演,我拍電影是因為我是我,而不是因為我是女人。我就是我。」
關注台灣影展的觀眾應該對茱莉亞迪古何諾不陌生,2017 年金馬奇幻影展的「Surprise Film」就是茱莉亞迪古何諾的首部劇情長片《肉獄》。至於《肉獄》則是在 2016 年坎城影展影評人週舉行世界首映,最終拿下費比西獎。順道一提,茱莉亞迪古何諾是坎城一手栽培的法國導演,首部短片《Junior》就是在坎城影展亮相。
雖然《鈦》獲得以史派克李為首的評審團青睞,但在《銀幕雜誌Screen Daily》每日更新的國際影評「場刊分數」,《衛報》、《正片》、《自由報》、《電訊報》等 10 間媒體的影評人僅給出均分 1.6,在主競賽 24 部作品中落在第 20 名位置,居於後段班。不過,坎城場刊僅是 10 位影評人的口味,《鈦》在坎城影展還是陸續傳出相關的正面反饋。
評價兩極的《鈦》由坎城影帝文森林頓、Agathe Rousselle、Garance Marillier 等人主演,【光年映畫 Light Year Images】在台發行。
象徵第二大獎的「評審團大獎」(Grand Prix),以及「評審團獎」(Jury Prize)則雙雙出現共享榮譽的結果。
「評審團大獎」頒給伊朗名導阿斯哈法哈蒂的《我不是英雄》(A Hero,暫譯)以及芬蘭導演 Juho Kuosmanen 的《Compartment No. 6》。
阿斯哈法哈蒂曾憑藉《分居風暴》和《新居風暴》兩度拿下奧斯卡最佳外語片(國際電影前身),生涯則以《咎愛》、《新居風暴》、《人盡皆知》和《我不是英雄》四度闖入坎城主競賽,其中《咎愛》獲得最佳女主角以及賽外的天主教人道精神獎、《新居風暴》獲得最佳劇本,再來就是今年《我不是英雄》收下評審團大獎。《我不是英雄》也獲得各大外媒讚譽,稱是「《分居風暴》以來最好的作品」,此片由【GaragePlay 車庫娛樂】在台發行。
至於 Juho Kuosmanen 除了今年帶回評審團大獎之外,2008 年生涯首部短片《Kestomerkitsijät》也在坎城亮相,2016 年的劇情長片《我生命中最快樂的一天》則抱回「一種注目」單元的最佳影片。
「評審團獎」頒給以色列導演那達夫拉匹的《Ahed’s Knee》,以及泰國名導阿比查邦韋拉斯塔古的《Memoria》。
那達夫拉匹上一部作品《出走巴黎》才於 2019 年擒下柏林影展最高榮譽金熊獎,今年再度於坎城獲獎,成為近年國際影壇最亮眼的以色列導演之一。而那達夫拉匹曾於 2015 年以《吾愛吾詩》抱走台北電影節國際新導演競賽的最佳影片,與台灣結下些許緣分。
至於阿比查邦的歷年作品則深得坎城厚愛,除了今年的《Memoria》,2002 年生涯第二部劇情長片《極樂森林》 就在坎城「一種注目」單元拿下首獎;2004 年的《熱帶幻夢》首度闖入坎城主競賽,受到以昆汀塔倫提諾為首的評審團青睞(蒂妲史雲頓也是評審),將評審團獎頒予阿比查邦; 2011 年憑藉《波米叔叔的前世今生》成為首位摘下金棕櫚的泰國影人; 2015 年的《華麗之墓》則進入「一種注目」單元。有趣的是,阿比查邦至今的兩座坎城評審團獎,都與蒂妲史雲頓有關。
事實上,不只史派克李率領的評審團傾心於《Memoria》,《銀幕雜誌Screen Daily》的場刊分數也開出均分 3.4 的高分,僅次於濱口竜介《在車上》的 3.5 分,高居第二(今年亞洲電影在坎城非常強勢)。《Memoria》由【ifilm/傳影互動 】在台發行。
綜觀來看今年的場刊分數,24 部作品之中,僅有 3 部作品均分破 3,除了阿比查邦、濱口竜介之外,還有李歐卡霍的《Annette》,且這三人最終也紛紛獲獎,濱口竜介拿到最佳劇本;李歐卡霍則收下最佳導演。
《Annette》是亞當崔佛、瑪莉詠柯蒂亞主演的音樂愛情電影,擔任今年影展的開幕片,這也是李歐卡霍繼《花都魅影》後,睽違 9 年再度執導劇情長片,便一舉抱走最佳導演。李歐卡霍生涯的劇情長片產量不多,至今僅獨立執導 6 部長片,其中 4 部在坎城競賽,包含首部長片《男孩遇見女孩》(國際影評人週)、《寶拉X》(主競賽)、 《花都魅影》(主競賽)和《Annette》。至於《壞痞子》在柏林影展角逐金熊,《新橋戀人》則未於三大影展競賽。
而日本名導濱口竜介的《在車上》,改編自村上春樹短篇小說集《沒有女人的男人們》中的同名短篇故事,眾家媒體一致稱讚濱口竜介成功將村上春樹的文字影像化。主競賽的劇本獎之外,《在車上》也囊括費比西影評人獎、天主教人道精神獎,是本屆的大贏家之一。
除了坎城獲獎的《在車上》,濱口竜介在今年初也憑藉《偶然與想像》於柏林影展拿下評審團大獎,值得一提的是,去年黑澤清在威尼斯影展拿下最佳導演的《間諜之妻》,是由濱口竜介和野原位共同執筆的劇本,間接來說,濱口竜介參與的作品連續在威尼斯、柏林、坎城歐洲三大影展有所斬獲,創作能量與收穫的榮譽相當不凡。
《偶然與想像》與《在車上》皆由【東昊 Andrews Film】在台發行,這也是繼《睡著也好醒來也罷》之後,東昊再度發行濱口竜介的新作。
最後,坎城影帝后分別是《Nitram》的卡賴伯蘭里瓊斯,以及《The Worst Person in the World》的蕾娜特萊茵斯薇,我個人也非常期待尤沃金提爾「奧斯陸三部曲」的終章《The Worst Person in the World》,此片由【好威映象 Hooray Films】在台發行。
🏆以下為主競賽單元得獎名單:
金棕櫚:《鈦》,茱莉亞迪古何諾
評審團大獎(兩部):
《我不是英雄》,阿斯哈法哈蒂
《Compartment No. 6》,Juho Kuosmanen
評審團獎(兩部):
《Memoria》,阿比查邦韋拉斯塔古
《Ahed’s Knee》,那達夫拉匹
最佳導演:《Annette》 ,李歐卡霍
最佳劇本:《在車上》,濱口竜介
最佳男演員:《Nitram》,卡賴伯蘭里瓊斯
最佳女演員:《The Worst Person in the World》,蕾娜特萊茵斯薇
圖片來源:NEON 、Festival de Cannes
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