重返风景
也许在三年大流行之前，观看风景就已经成为一种奢侈。消费社会更多的是教会我们如何忽略风景，因为它需要的是一个可以突出无数商品主体的观看系统。如同很多手机相机的“电影效果”，其主要功能是将主体的背景虚化，背后的风景就这样被光学镜头和数字效果抹除了。这似乎意味着“风景”是一种被大众图像系统排斥在外的元素；而如果当你想真正看看作为主体的风景时，风景又立刻被精密的摄影和后期系统处理成另外一种东西，它们服务于其背后的另一套叙事逻辑，进而服务于一个背后隐藏的主体。但也许结束了三年的禁足生活，当我们重新走出家门，再次审视风景的时候，风景也成为了一种亟需被拓宽边界之物。
风景何时成为风景？又可能在何时停止成为风景？路易斯·莱乔萨（Luis Lechosa）在《糟糕的时代》（Fare Thee Ill，2022）中重新审视了作为旅游区的山脉，试图从活动在该区域的幽灵和实体的各个角度，重新审视一个风景的心理线索。克拉拉·贝金（Clara Becking）的《天空》(Sky，2023）斯特凡·克鲁斯（Stefan Kruse）的《低感光度》（Sensitivity in Low Light Conditions，2023）都选择了对风景长久的凝视，而电影则成为凝视中的出神过程，凝视和出神成为风景产生“风景”的生产系统。
人如何介入风景？其行为的价值意义又是什么？莱昂诺尔·梅尔西（Léonore Mercier）在《野性》（Savage, 2023）中展示了一个惊人的案例，几百匹野马被驱赶下山，成为一场人类节日的主角，但又在其过程中被立刻客体化。《木结构如何在我心存续》（How the wooden structures survived in my mind, 2023）和《乌托邦乐园》（Tierra Utopia, 2022）都在尝试回避人在风景中作为强主体性的存在，转而去探讨人类的痕迹，建造或者遗留的行为与自然的互动过程。在《家庭符号学》（Semiotics of the Home, 2023）中，林怡平（Jessi Ali Lin）和陈省聿（Hsin-Yu Chen）用一辆巨大的挖掘机模拟标志性的日常生活，而其模拟行为发生的环境——一片巨大的拆迁瓦砾堆——使这些荒诞的行为显得额外庄重，挖掘机“轻柔”地煎蛋、叠衣服、洗碗，使得作品成为在其风景前的冥想和忏悔行为。尤西·艾罗拉（Jussi Eerola）在《蝗鸣四起》（Grasshopper, 2023）中所做的事情正好相反，他以灯光的律动装饰无人的空间，试图依靠建筑的肌理和线条来完成对风景灵魂的召唤。
在《鬼影》（Eidolon, 2023）中，Axel Chemin制造了一种主体和虚假背景之间的紧张感，风景成为一种由于虚假而令人疑虑，却又因此充满存在性的多余之物。《气象摄影机的记录》（Recordings of a Weather Camera, 2023）则选择了气象摄影机的画面，用一种反电影的，貌似呆滞和缓慢的摄像头视角暗示着人在大自然前的盲动。本着同样工作方向的土耳其导演菲拉特·尤塞尔（Fırat Yucel）在《2020年3月8日：回忆录》（March 8, 2020: A Memoir, 2023)中寻找种种监控录像的观看盲区，重新解构着城市中人类的轨迹。
当主体的诱惑日渐淡去，其背景才能成为一种悬置在时间和空间任意坐标的可辅助思考之物。电影或许还剩若干机会能重新成为我们假以思考的方式，返回主体的背景，返回风景以对抗一种倦怠的影像思考，或许是其中一种。
Returning to the Landscape
Perhaps, before the outbreak of the three-year pandemic, viewing landscapes had already become a luxury. Consumer society taught us more about how to ignore landscapes, as it required a viewing system that could highlight numerous commodity subjects. Similar to the "cinematic effect" of many smartphone cameras, whose main function is to blur the background of the subject, the landscape behind is thus erased by optical lenses and digital effects. This seems to imply that "landscape" is an element excluded by the popular image system. However, when you truly want to see the landscape as the subject, it is immediately transformed into something else by precise photography and post-production systems. They serve another set of narrative logics behind them, thereby serving a hidden subject. But perhaps, after three years of confinement, when we step out of our homes again and reexamine the landscape, the landscape has become something that urgently needs its boundaries to be expanded.
When does a landscape become a landscape? And when might it cease to be one? Luis Lechosa reexamines mountains as tourist areas in "Fare Thee Ill" (2022), attempting to explore the psychological clues of a landscape from various perspectives of ghosts and entities active in the region. Clara Becking's "Sky" (2023) and Stefan Kruse's "Sensitivity in Low Light Conditions" (2023) choose to gaze at landscapes for an extended period, and film becomes a trance in the gaze, turning the act of gazing and being entranced into a production system for creating "scenery."
How does humanity intervene in the landscape? What is the value significance of its actions? Léonore Mercier showcases a striking case in "Savage" (2023), where hundreds of wild horses are driven down the mountain, becoming the protagonists of a human festival but immediately objectified in the process. "How the wooden structures survived in my mind" (2023) and "Tierra Utopia" (2022) attempt to avoid the strong subjectivity of humans in the landscape, instead exploring the traces left by human actions and interactions with nature. In "Semiotics of the Home" (2023), Jessi Ali Lin and Hsin-Yu Chen simulate iconic daily life with a giant excavator, and the environment where these absurd behaviors take place—a huge demolition debris pile—adds extra gravity to these whimsical actions. The excavator "gently" fries eggs, folds clothes, and washes dishes, making the work a meditation and repentance in front of its landscape. Jussi Eerola, in "Grasshopper" (2023), does the opposite by decorating empty spaces with the rhythmic play of light, attempting to summon the soul of the landscape through the texture and lines of architecture.
In "Eidolon" (2023), Axel Chemin creates a tension between the subject and the false background, making the landscape a redundant entity due to its falseness, yet filled with existentialism. "Recordings of a Weather Camera" (2023) opts for the visuals from a weather camera, using a seemingly sluggish and slow camera perspective, suggesting a blind movement of humans in front of nature in an anti-cinematic way. Following a similar direction, Turkish director Fırat Yucel in "March 8, 2020: A Memoir" (2023) seeks blind spots in the viewing of various surveillance videos, reconstructing the trajectories of humanity in the city.
When the allure of the subject gradually fades, its background can become a thought-provoking entity suspended at any coordinates of time and space. Perhaps, films still have several opportunities to become a way for us to think, to return to the background of the subject, to return to the landscape to counteract a kind of weariness in image thinking—perhaps it is one of them.
71 films combined in the BISFF2023 international competition. These films will be screened in the Goethe Institute Beijing, Institut Francais and Beijing Nanluo Theatre from 2nd to 10th December.
Caro Mostro｜Dear Monster｜亲爱的怪兽
Stefano P. Testa
2023｜0:16:00｜Italy｜Italian
Asia Premiere
The Enlightenment｜启蒙
Stephanie Barber
2023｜0:12:09｜USA｜English
Asia Premiere
Смертьстатиста｜Death of an Extra｜多余的死亡
Mikhail Zheleznikov
2023｜0:09:45｜Israel｜Russian
Chinese Mainland Premiere
March 8, 2020: A Memoir｜2020年3月8日：回忆录
Fırat Yücel
2023｜0:15:00｜Netherlands｜Turkish
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Blue, Woman, Dress｜蓝色 女子 裙子
Jinhyun Kim
2023｜0:19:40｜Germany，Republic of Korea｜Korean
International Premiere
Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti – Vol. I｜A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I｜业余摄影师指南：第一辑
Federico Di Corato
2022｜0:20:00｜Italy｜Italian
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Yarokamena｜亚罗卡梅纳
Andres Jurado
2023｜0:21:00｜Colombia｜Spanish
Asia Premiere
Das Kulturgespräch im Radio｜Culture Talk on the Radio｜广播上的文化对谈
Errkaa
2022｜0:27:00｜Germany, Switzerland｜English
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Yvuuhza Okaina｜平和奥凯纳
Ferney Iyokina Gittoma
2023｜0:25:00｜Colombia｜Spanish
Asia Premiere
Zio Palmiro｜Uncle Palmiro｜帕米罗叔叔
Luca Sorgato
2022｜0:15:00｜Italy｜Italian
International Premiere
Todo está perdido｜All Is Lost｜一切都已失去
Carla Pereira, Juanfran Jacinto
2023｜0:07:00｜Spain｜English
Asia Premiere
How the wooden structures survived in my mind｜木结构如何在我心存续
Thadeusz Tischbein
2023｜0:09:03｜Germany｜English
Asia Premiere
De Imperio｜De Imperio｜来自帝国
Alessandro Novelli
2023｜0:13:15｜Portugal, Spain｜No Dialogue
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Katatoni｜Catatonia｜痴呆症
Oğuzhan Kaya
2023｜0:06:00｜Turkey｜No Dialogue
Asia Premiere
映像書簡あぶり出し・あそーと｜ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters written in invisible ink｜炙出系列：隐形墨水的视频信
Nonoho Suzuki
2022｜0:09:24｜Japan｜Japanese
Asia Premiere
Employees｜雇员
Tommaso Cotronei
2023｜0:30:00｜Italy｜Italian
Asia Premiere
Natureza Humana｜Human Nature｜人性
Mónica Lima
2023｜0:25:28｜Portugal, Germany｜Portuguese
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Svačija unuka｜Everybody's Granddaughter｜所有人的孙女
Svetlana Ćopić
2022｜0:23:00｜Serbia｜Serbian
Asia Premiere
Asterión｜阿斯忒里俄斯
Francesco Montagner
2022｜0:15:16｜Czech Republic (Czechia), Slovakia｜No Dialogue
Chinese Mainland Premiere
眼球の人｜The Eyeball Person｜眼球人
Yuri Muraoka
2023｜0:11:42｜Japan｜Japanese
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Shrimp Love｜虾之恋
Sarah Fitterer
2023｜0:09:00｜Germany｜German
Asia Premiere
Plaza Melayang｜Enflightenment｜亦浮扬
Wey Yinn Teo
2023｜0:11:00｜Malaysia｜Malay, Chinese Dialect
Asia Premiere
Ñuhu: Seres Sagrados｜Ñuhu: Sacred Beings｜Ñuhu: 神圣的存在者
Julio César Saavedra Castro
2022｜0:24:24｜Mexico｜Spanish; Castilian
International Premiere
Dildotectónica｜Dildotectonics｜性玩具的重造
Tomás Paula Marques
2023｜0:15:24｜Portugal Portuguese
Asia Premiere
Les yeux verts｜Green Eyes｜绿眼睛
Sacha Teboul
2023｜0:29:35｜France｜French
World Premiere
Nhím｜Porcupine｜豪猪
Nicolas Graux｜ TRƯƠNG MINH Quý
2023｜0:13:00｜Belgium, Singapore, Vietnam｜French, English, Vietnamese
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Bold Eagle｜Bold Eagle｜雄鹰
Whammy Alcazaren
2022｜0:16:20｜Philippines, Singapore｜Tagalog
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Du Bist So Wunderbar｜Paradise Europe｜欧洲天堂
Leandro Goddinho ｜Paulo Menezes
2023｜0:17:50｜Brazil, Germany｜English, German, Portuguese
Asia Premiere
SOLOS｜GROUND｜大地
Pedro Vargas
2023｜0:13:28｜Brazil｜Portuguese
Asia Premiere
La casa del bosco｜The House in the Woods｜林中之屋
Giovanni Benini,｜Luca Mantovani
2023｜0:16:27｜Italy｜Italian
International Premiere
Visão do Paraíso｜Vision of Paradise｜天堂之景
Leonardo Pirondi
2022｜0:16:02｜Brazil, UK, USA｜Portuguese, English
Asia Premiere
Fälle｜Incidences｜偶发事件
Mischa Hedinger｜Michela Flück
2022｜0:14:00｜Switzerland｜German
Asia Premiere
Do you dare to show me the wound｜你敢给我看伤口吗
Danila Lipatov
2023｜0:19:38｜Germany｜English
World Premiere
Sky｜天空
Clara Becking
2023｜0:15:00｜Germany｜English
World Premiere
La Partida de las Imágenes｜The Departing Images｜远去的影像
Ana Edwards
2023｜0:11:11｜France｜Spanish; Castilian
Asia Premiere
I Would Like to Rage｜我想愤怒
Chloé Galibert-Laîné
2023｜0:11:20｜France｜English, French
Asia Premiere
Savage｜野性
Léonore Mercier
2023｜0:20:00｜France
Asia Premiere
En attendant les Robots｜Human, not human｜人，非人
Natan Castay
2023｜0:39:40｜Belgium｜English, French, Portuguese
Asia Premiere
Thời Thơ Ấu｜Childhood｜童年
Vi Tuong Bui
2023｜0:07:00｜United States｜Vietnamese
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Winterslaap｜Hibernation｜冬眠
Leandros Brown ｜Daniel Howells
2023｜0:29:51｜South Africa｜Afrikaans
Asia Premiere
Ultimate Bliss｜Ultimate Bliss｜至高幸福
Miguel de Jesus
2022｜0:13:31｜Portugal｜English
Asia Premiere
Semiotics of the Home｜家庭符号学
Hsin-Yu Chen｜Jessi Ali Lin
2023｜0:07:55｜USA No Dialogue
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Ozr el wezzah｜The Goose's Excuse｜鹅的借口
Mahdy Abo Bahat｜Abdo Zin Eldin
2023｜0:25:15｜Egypt, UK｜Arabic
Asia Premiere
Se Khahar｜Three Sisters｜三姐妹
Iman Behrouzi
2022｜0:12:13 ｜Iran (Islamic Republic of)｜Persian
Chinese Mainland Premiere
The Key｜钥匙
Rakan Mayasi
2023｜0:18:30｜Belgium, Qatar, France｜Hebrew
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Double Around the Interlude｜双倍循环间奏
Stefano Miraglia
2022｜0:14:55｜France, Italy｜English
Asia Premiere
صم｜DEAF｜聋
Roy Arida
2023｜0:37:00｜France, Lebanon｜Arabic
Asia Premiere
Eidolon｜鬼影
Axel Chemin
2023｜0:19:58｜France｜French
Asia Premiere
ให้แสงอาบกายให้กาลวายสิ้น｜Blinded by Centuries｜世纪迷失
Parinda Mai Parinda Ma
2022｜0:13.57｜Thailand, USA｜Thai,English
亚洲首映 Asia Premiere
Mal Siglo Haya｜Fare Thee Ill｜糟糕的时代
Luis Lechosa
2022｜0:38:17｜Spain｜Spanish; Castilian
International Premiere
Ympyrän neliöimisestä｜Square the Circle｜圆矩求方
Hanna Hovitie
2023｜0:17:26｜Finland Finnish
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Cyclepaths｜行车道
Anton Cla
2023｜0:12:25｜Belgium｜No Dialogue
Suya Dokun｜Touch the Water｜触水
Yusuf Demirors
2023｜0:07:53｜United States｜Turkish
Asia Premiere
Vienen las grietas｜Cracks Will Come｜丛林绮想
Daniel Mateo Vallej
2022｜0:18:09｜Colombia, Netherlands｜Spanish; Castilian
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Cette histoire existe｜This story to exist｜故事存在
Pauline Moussours
2023｜0:18:07｜France｜French
Chinese Mainland Premiere
UN PETIT HOMME｜A TINY MAN｜小男人
Aude David｜Mikaël Gaudin
0:10:00｜France｜No Dialogue
Asia Premiere
La desesperación de los monos｜The despair of monkeys｜猿猴的绝望
Julián García Long
2022｜0:16:46｜France｜Spanish; Castilian, French
Asia Premiere
Tierra Utopia｜Tierra Utopia｜乌托邦乐园
Domenico Singha Pedroli
2022｜0:21:59｜Switzerland, Portugal｜Portuguese, English, Italian, French
World Premiere
La plage aux êtres｜The Beach of Beings｜生命之滩
Kendra McLaughlin
2022｜0:20:00｜France｜English, French
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Sensitivity in Low Light Conditions｜Sensitivity in Low Light Conditions｜低感光度
Stefan Kruse Jørgensen
2023｜0:21:30｜Germany, Denmark｜English
Asia Premiere
Why Are You Image Plus?｜Why Are You Image Plus?｜为什么你是图像加？
Diogo Baldaia
2023｜0:08:44｜Portugal English
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Three Secret Clues of Longing｜Three Secret Clues of Longing｜渴望的三个秘密线索
Zhenia Kazankina
2023｜0:04:25｜Switzerland｜No Dialogue
Asia Premiere
KIBONUMWE / METEORITE I｜KIBONUMWE / METEORITE I｜一致 / 陨石 I
Simon Rittmeier
2022 0:12:00 Germany, Rwanda｜Kinyarwanda, English
Asia Premiere
Nyanga｜Nyanga｜尼扬迦
Medhin Tewolde Serrano
2023｜0:20:06｜Mexico｜Spanish; Castilian
Asia Premiere
الحديقة السريّة｜The Secret Garden｜秘密花园
Nour Ouayda
2023｜0:27:15｜Lebanon Arabic
Chinese Mainland Premiere
아름다운시체 삼부작｜Exquisite Corpse Trilogy｜美尸三部曲
Seokyoung Yang
2023｜0:17:03｜USA, Republic of Korea｜Korean, English
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Aufnahmen einer Wetterkamera｜Recordings of a Weather Camera｜气象摄影机的记录
Bernhard Wenger
2023｜0:18:30｜Austria, Germany｜German, English, Dutch; Flemish
Chinese Mainland Premiere
L'Ombra di Rasputin｜拉斯普京的影子
Pietro Francesco Pingitore
2023｜0:26:45｜Italy｜Italian
Chinese Mainland Premiere
Kinderfilm｜Kinderfilm｜儿童电影
Robin Klengel｜Adrian Jonas ｜Michael Stumpf
2023｜0:11:35｜Austria｜English
Asia Premiere
Malestar Transatlántico｜Transatlantic Malaise｜跨越大西洋的不安
Diego Andres Murillo
2023｜0:11:37｜Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Switzerland｜English, Spanish; Castilian
Asia Premiere
Grasshopper｜Grasshopper｜蝗鸣四起
Jussi Eerola Jussi
2023｜0:09:00｜Finland｜No Dialogue
Asia Premiere