Popo-Post Art Group
致我們的悲劇
To Our Tragedy
2018
Video錄像, 4”02
1971年荷蘭藝術家Bas Jan Ader拍了一段名作” I’m Too Sad to Tell You”的錄像作品。片段中他只作無聲哭泣，沒有任何人知道他悲傷的原因。這作品被認為是一種純粹的情感展示；藝術家將私密的個人情緒放映在公眾眼前。 在20世紀中，哭泣的鏡頭幾乎成為了主流電影、電視劇的必要之物。為了解釋悲傷， 導演會籍過多的蒙太奇去渲染情緒，觀眾卻很少能看到一個純粹的哭泣畫面。當脫離了悲傷的烘托，將會是一個沈悶的慢鏡頭。
In 1971, a Dutch artist, Bas Jan Ader, has recorded himself crying in front of the camera, and named the video, “ I’m Too Sad to Tell You”. Nobody knows what has happened to him, but only the artist himself knows. He put his personal feeling to the public eyes, which people perceive the video as a pure reveal of emotion. In the 20th century, crying scenes nearly become a must in the mainstream movies and dramas. Directors would cut multi montages to explain the reasons behind the sadness. Audiences somehow are rarely exposed to a “pure crying scene”. When those montages were gone, only a boring, long slow-motion shot is left.
In 1971, a Dutch artist, Bas Jan Ader, has recorded himself crying in front of the camera, and named the video, “ I’m Too Sad to Tell You”. Nobody knows what has happened to him, but only the artist himself knows. He put his personal feeling to the public eyes, which people perceive the video as a pure reveal of emotion. In the 20th century, crying scenes nearly become a must in the mainstream movies and dramas. Directors would cut multi montages to explain the reasons behind the sadness. Audiences somehow are rarely exposed to a “pure crying scene”. When those montages were gone, only a boring, long slow-motion shot is left.
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