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# 金六刀 Chin Liu Tao (1995)

"have you ever been there?" 



In VFX post-production. The experimental short film is meant to be in memory of an unknown Cambodian girl in dreams, which initiated the unknown "Penghu Vietnamese Refugee Camps in the Taiwan Strait" documentary trilogy ("Place of Exception," "Chin-Liu-Tao," "Refugee Boats to Penghu").

影片中有一位小女孩。我一開始也不知道她是誰,後來才知道她是紅色高棉(Khmer Rouge)時期柬埔寨監獄中的政治受難者,現在可能已經過世了。

我第一次夢到是在1995年(秋天),那時我正在澎湖當兵,我夢到我看著自己在睡覺,接著是主觀鏡頭,看見天花板上漂下來兩具小小的棺材且慢慢接近我,停在我上方兩、三英呎,然後消失。

不久之後我就夢到那位小女孩,雖然她的照片是黑白的,但在夢裡她穿了一件台灣高中生常常穿的藍色夾克,左手臂上綁著一條白布條,上面寫了三個漢字:金六刀。我不知道那是什麼,直覺認為那是中南半島的某個地方,接著她問我:「Have you ever been there?」當然,我不曾去過。

醒來之後,我直覺這跟小棺材的夢是同一件事,夢透露出一個訊息:難民營。醒來後我去問幫我們煮飯的阿桑是否聽過難民營,阿桑說:「有喔有喔,好像在西嶼那裡」,這是1995年的事。

退伍後一直到2003年3月,有天我又夢到一片草地,那裡下著大雨,地上全是沒有人撐的傘,風一吹,傘全被吹走了,只剩下草地的空景。夢境以一種超越語言系統的方式告訴我:「難民營下個月要拆」( "THE REFUGEE CAMP IS TO BE DEMOLISHED NEXT MONTH" , )。#ChinLiuTao #theGolden6thKnife  

摘文連結: 流離南島——尚未顯影的東南亞《不即不離》導演廖克發對談《例外之地》導演劉吉雄, #放映週報 #580期, 2016-11-04 (原文連結) http://www.funscreen.com.tw/headline.asp?H_No=640

(c) Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Phnom Penh)
























金六刀 Chin-Liu-Tao: Somewhere Unknown in Indochina ( production still, 20190904[1995~2003])
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Flickr: @Asio LIU Chihsiung: https://flic.kr/p/2iuG1iy 

In VFX post-production. The experimental short film is meant to be in memory of an unknown Cambodian girl in dreams, which initiated the unknown "Penghu Vietnamese Refugee Camps in the Taiwan Strait" documentary trilogy ("Place of Exception," "Chin-Liu-Tao," "Refugee Boats to Penghu").

(photo courtesy of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum/ photo by Chien Hsien HUANG & Yung Ming CHANG/ written & directed by Asio LIU Chihsiung/ presented by Mimeo Films & ET@T)
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"Have you ever been there?" //

Production stills updated in "Chin-Liu-Tao" project shooted in Sep. 2019. Renowned actress Yuu Chen (IMDb/ "Love of Sandstorm," "The World Between Us") plays the Cambodian girl part in this "dream work."

Dreams of "Chin-Liu-Tao," which implicates "somewhere unknown in Indochina," initiated the Penghu Vietnamese Refugee Camps trilogy film projects ("Chin-Liu-Tao," "Place of Exception," "Refugee Boats to Penghu"). I did write the "Chin-Liu-Tao" ( meaning "The Golden 6th Knife"[?] in Mandarin) script in such a one-take scene adapted from my three dreams. The story is intended to be truthful without necessarily being real.

The 3rd dream of the girl in March 2003 suggested "the refugee camp is to be demolished next month," and hundreds of broken umbrellas scattered on abandoned/wasted land with weeds, which mean "plants in the wrong place," were taken away by the wind. (Possibly, the seasonal wind might be the North-East Monsoon in Penghu?) It turned out to be one month precisely before Penghu's Chiangmei Refugee Camp was to be demolished in April 2003.

Still working on the tough VFX composition job for the 5-min experimental film in post-production. Hope to have the work done by next Spring. 




「你曾經去過那裡嗎?」//

實驗小電影《金六刀》2019年九月的拍攝劇照。知名的新生代演員陳妤(《戀愛沙塵暴》、《我們與惡的距離》)主演了夢境中的柬埔寨女孩,我們很榮幸有她一起參加。

夢境《金六刀》(「中南半島的未知某處」),是「澎湖越南難民營影片三部曲」的計劃源起(《金六刀》、《例外之地》、《難民船》)。《金六刀》的劇本是改編自三個夢境的一個鏡頭場次。其中有誠實敘事的意圖,但未必是如實呈現。

其中的第三個夢境,在2003年三月暗示了「難民營下個月就要拆」; 散落在荒廢雜草地上(雜草意指「錯生於某地的植物」)的數百隻殘破雨傘,也在夢裡被季風帶走(是澎湖的東北季風?)。這個夢境的來臨,後來我們知道,的確就是在澎湖講美難民營拆除之前的一個月。

目前是後期VFX視效未完成的版本,人物背景的標記是用來作合成的參考點。雖然是片長5分鐘的作品,但是後製合成費時。希望能在明年春天完成。

(靜照資料授權: 吐斯廉屠殺博物館/ 劇照及工作照攝影: 黃謙賢、張永明/ 編導: 劉吉雄/ 出品: 印樣電影製作 & 在地實驗/ 特別感謝: 有時電影)

@金六刀 Chin-Liu-Tao: Somewhere Unknown in Indochina
@在地實驗 (ETAT.com)
@固態記憶 Solid Memory @有時電影有限公司
@阿榮影業 @現代電影沖印股份有限公司 @力榮影業
@好好娛樂 Good Talent Entertainment @國藝會

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