英文摘要 |
The digital era has been marked by an explosion of new concepts in moving images. In addition to ‘cinema of exhibition’ and ‘artists’ cinema’, one of the latest additions is ‘relocated cinema’. As the named indicates, relocated cinema literally relocates screenings and audiences to some other terrain to create an entirely different sort of spectatorship from those created by cinema and museums. In the current context of Taiwan, relocated cinema is perhaps best exemplified by Chen Chieh-Jen’s Realm of Reverberations and Kao Jun-Honn’s Boai (Universal Love), both of which adopted the format of artists taking audiences to visit historical ruins, and organizing docent tours, open-air screenings and forums to encourage the participants to build a dialogue with the past. This paper aims to take these two films as case studies to explore three aspects of relocated cinema: Firstly, for the migration motif in contemporary moving images, how the interconnected ‘plug-in’ features of these two films are comparable with the image projections, spatial layouts, and audiences mobilizations of cinemas and museums will be examined. Secondly, for the poetics and politics of relocated cinema, these features are not accidental products. Our research suggests that the characteristics they display link the two films to the genealogy and structural framework of classic cinematic masterpieces, but also give rise to a critical and political-artistic paradigm. And thirdly, for the spectators’ participation in relocated cinema, it can be argued that the two films, straddling the disciplines of cinema studies and contemporary art, formulate a cross-disciplinary discourse that inspires fresh ideas of spatial arrangements and multitudinous spectators. |