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We Can’t Grow Up Together

We Can’t Grow Up Together

Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2013
duration /
3'33

The things we had lost in time differ, it is the reason why we can’t grow up together. Some events seem to be not important at the moment might became a crucial milestone in a personal sense. Through retelling and rewriting the memory, the pointless emotions turns to the flowing memory, and being able to preserved.
The film was shot in 16mm, based on a childhood (false) memory, transformed with fantasies and symbolic objects, and performed in a public environment. The elements in the film are both the markers of emotion and time, with montage, the outside world and inner scenery came across to each other.

本片使用16釐米底片拍攝,由兒時記憶出發,將象徵物、表演、與開放空間轉化為時間與情緒的標記。使用象徵與蒙太奇方法,呈現內心風景與外在世界的交錯。重寫記憶是保存情感的方式,本片以情緒的莫名的波瀾為主軸,重疊內在的時間、外在的時間與影像的時間,將記憶變造為抽象的詭態,一種有點campy的、模稜兩可的,又哭又笑的矛盾情感。儘管在遠方的當下無從感知,在記憶中經過的事物都可能成為時間的標記,某個乍看不重要的記憶也可能在另外一個時間點重述時,成為自我改變的標記。因為等待的途中丟失和獲得的東西不一樣,所以我們不能一起長大。

about the artist /

Tzu-An Wu works between experimental film and its expansions. He makes collages with analogue films, through mixing heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of (cinematic) narratives and the selves.

He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan). Exhibitions include Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. He also does programming of experimental cinema.

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