英文摘要 |
This paper discusses Lim Giong and Jia Zhangke’s collaborative work on film music in The World (2004) and Still Life (2006)—in particular how Lim’s electronic film scores mark Jia’s turn towards the xianchang (on-the-scene) poetics in his documentaries. In these two films, Lim creatively uses electronic sounds to explore the dimension of abstraction, expressing the impureness of reality in Jia’s realist aesthetics that blurs the defining boundaries between documentary and fiction films. From this perspective, this paper examines how Lim’s sound aesthetics in Jia’s films responds to the destruction and reconstruction resulting from China’s rapid modernization and its impact on individuals’ everyday perceptions in the era of digital technology. Finally, this paper studies Lim Giong’s film scoring for Jia’s documentary on-thescene poetics to productively rethink Hou Hsiao-hsien’s sound realism rooted in Taiwan New Wave Cinema and to break new ground for sound studies in Chinese-language cinemas. In so doing, this study hopes to enhance the exploration of next-generation Chinese independent filmmakers and their insistent visions and voices of what is real. |