Dick Fontaine — 导演 (2)
声音?? (1966) [电影] 豆瓣
Sound??
导演: Dick Fontaine 演员: John Cage / Rahsaan Roland Kirk
其它标题: Sound??
Dick Fontaine ( 1967年/黑白/27分鐘 )
【Sound??Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage 】Directed by Dick Fontaine
( 1967/B&W/27mins )
什麼是噪音?什麼是音樂?你覺得悅耳無比,別人或許厭惡至極。
什麼是聲音?什麼是寂靜?當你進入一個理論上無聲的實驗室,你還是會很煞風景地聽到自己的血液與神經,依舊 噗通不停地,雜鬧響著。
影片的兩位主角分別是現代音樂家/理論家John Cage,以及雙眼失明的爵士吹管音樂家Roland Kirk。Dick Fontaine用實驗的影像風格搭配巧妙的交叉剪接,讓事實上沒有相遇,更未交談的兩位音樂家,在片中彼此辯證, 互相對話。我們在片中看見John Cage宛如神秘的哲學家,不斷地在溜滑梯、玩轉輪、騎單車的過程中,唸著自己關於「聲音」概念的思考札記。片子另端,則是狀似巫師的聲音實踐者Roland Kirk,時而嘴裡插著五、六把薩克斯風同步吹奏,時而把電子器材發出的無調性聲波當作創作背景,時而分發玩具樂器給眾人,希望用業餘者共同即興參與的方式,顛覆專精才是音樂的概念。
本片因此是個關於何謂「音樂」的本體論質問,簡短卻韻味深遠,前衛卻不失趣味。可和Jacques Attali的理論著作《噪音:音樂的政治經濟學》對照閱讀。
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) [电影] TMDB
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.