A good Friday night should starts with waiting for your buddies to come at the crossroad and sees the sunset of Spring night on this metropolitian city. The last brush of sunlight casts its shade on the face of the St. John's statue and the night falls before you notice it. The switching point of day and night has this transforming quality, which bringing a sense of silent film: we know silent film is never silent, with live-music and subtitle and passion; the moment just after sunset contains the remaining vibration of the endless movement of the day, but also a sense of silence and underground turbulence of the night. Stood there as I did, I enjoyed the 10 minutes of being alone in crowd, saw dogs fighting, babies crying, cars passing and I stood there as a rock in a stream.
The talk of the everning was about Blog, the debate about it and what we get from it. Liu introduced couple of bloggers she viewed all the time and also some meaningless but hot debate among writers and literature critices nowedays. And then Hao told some unpleasant experience about his job search in Beida and Tsinghua and his final decision to go back Beida and Teach. I am happy it worked out eventually and hope he will have a good head start there. His graduation seems to be a sure thing on the table, but mine is so vague now. I know I should have nothing to complaint about, but the uncertainty about my future makes me really uncomfortable. But at least I learn one thing from our discussion that I should not hope to find my ideal job in one shot and maybe I should start with whatever I get and keep on searching.
Liu wishes to launch her new career as documentary film/TV maker after graduation and she is learning by doing now. She helps some groups to make documentaries and learn all aspects of that business. And then we have a debate about talent. She believed only the talented person can make the big hit, with superb sensitivity to bring the dramatic event in ordinary life in to big screen. The creativity underlying the choice of topic is almost everything that counts. I'd rather believe it is the critical thinking, the philosophical reflection about human being, and artistic presentation which make great documentaries. Like the recent hit, the Darwin's Nightmare. Everyone knows the military conflict in Congo and people suffer from the civil war. However it was the director's observation of the link between globalization, the underlying western involvement, the unequal distribution of wealth, which contributes to the unique perspective of the film. To be creative is easy, but it is difficult to make a life by being creative always. So my suggestion to Liu is to be a producer rather than a director or screenwritter. :)
After the long dinner, we walk about 50 blocks to see the Brokeback Mountain. We passed by a small popcorn shop on Broadway after we walked by the only off-Broadway theater on Broadway. The shop produces iteself and it originally from the small town of Popcorn in Indiana. The popcorn is very sweet but tasty, like the early spring night we enjoyed.
At a moment or two, we talked about what our definition of "happy life" is. Hao said he want to have family and becomes a famous professor after 20 years of hard working. Liu makes jokes about his definition of Kant-like fame and her definition is to have some great ideas and makes several good documentary. She believes it is the creativity which makes her life happier. I don't know how to response to the question. My answer is something in between. I am stilling looking for what I am becoming, at my old age, it sounds like nonsence but it is not.
People like Ennis and Jake are lucky, even though they suffer from not able to live their ideal lives, but at least they realize earlier who they are and what they want. They have no doubt about their sexual identity and their source of happiness is simple: to go to a remote place like the B-mountain and be themselves. In real life, every few of us has a place to retreat. Go figure youself, that is our fate.
Plan to see a documentary film talk by Wu Wenguan at NYU next Friday. As the leading figure of the so called New Documentary Movement in China, he attractes both eyeballs and money from big sponsors like EU. The project called Village Video Project and try to capture the changing scence in Chinese rural areas from villager's own perspective. However, I feel a little bit cliche about the idea; eventually it is him to decide to whom the DV camera is given, and what to show in the western median and what not to show. The voice of people is collected by him and disseminated by him, and at the end of the day it is his art work not theirs.
2006年3月11日星期六
Graduation, Blog, Popcorn, Mountain and Documentary
A good Friday night should starts with waiting for your buddies to come at the crossroad and sees the sunset of Spring night on this metropolitian city. The last brush of sunlight casts its shade on the face of the St. John's statue and the night falls before you notice it. The switching point of day and night has this transforming quality, which bringing a sense of silent film: we know silent film is never silent, with live-music and subtitle and passion; the moment just after sunset contains the remaining vibration of the endless movement of the day, but also a sense of silence and underground turbulence of the night. Stood there as I did, I enjoyed the 10 minutes of being alone in crowd, saw dogs fighting, babies crying, cars passing and I stood there as a rock in a stream.
The talk of the everning was about Blog, the debate about it and what we get from it. Liu introduced couple of bloggers she viewed all the time and also some meaningless but hot debate among writers and literature critices nowedays. And then Hao told some unpleasant experience about his job search in Beida and Tsinghua and his final decision to go back Beida and Teach. I am happy it worked out eventually and hope he will have a good head start there. His graduation seems to be a sure thing on the table, but mine is so vague now. I know I should have nothing to complaint about, but the uncertainty about my future makes me really uncomfortable. But at least I learn one thing from our discussion that I should not hope to find my ideal job in one shot and maybe I should start with whatever I get and keep on searching.
Liu wishes to launch her new career as documentary film/TV maker after graduation and she is learning by doing now. She helps some groups to make documentaries and learn all aspects of that business. And then we have a debate about talent. She believed only the talented person can make the big hit, with superb sensitivity to bring the dramatic event in ordinary life in to big screen. The creativity underlying the choice of topic is almost everything that counts. I'd rather believe it is the critical thinking, the philosophical reflection about human being, and artistic presentation which make great documentaries. Like the recent hit, the Darwin's Nightmare. Everyone knows the military conflict in Congo and people suffer from the civil war. However it was the director's observation of the link between globalization, the underlying western involvement, the unequal distribution of wealth, which contributes to the unique perspective of the film. To be creative is easy, but it is difficult to make a life by being creative always. So my suggestion to Liu is to be a producer rather than a director or screenwritter. :)
After the long dinner, we walk about 50 blocks to see the Brokeback Mountain. We passed by a small popcorn shop on Broadway after we walked by the only off-Broadway theater on Broadway. The shop produces iteself and it originally from the small town of Popcorn in Indiana. The popcorn is very sweet but tasty, like the early spring night we enjoyed.
At a moment or two, we talked about what our definition of "happy life" is. Hao said he want to have family and becomes a famous professor after 20 years of hard working. Liu makes jokes about his definition of Kant-like fame and her definition is to have some great ideas and makes several good documentary. She believes it is the creativity which makes her life happier. I don't know how to response to the question. My answer is something in between. I am stilling looking for what I am becoming, at my old age, it sounds like nonsence but it is not.
People like Ennis and Jake are lucky, even though they suffer from not able to live their ideal lives, but at least they realize earlier who they are and what they want. They have no doubt about their sexual identity and their source of happiness is simple: to go to a remote place like the B-mountain and be themselves. In real life, every few of us has a place to retreat. Go figure youself, that is our fate.
Plan to see a documentary film talk by Wu Wenguan at NYU next Friday. As the leading figure of the so called New Documentary Movement in China, he attractes both eyeballs and money from big sponsors like EU. The project called Village Video Project and try to capture the changing scence in Chinese rural areas from villager's own perspective. However, I feel a little bit cliche about the idea; eventually it is him to decide to whom the DV camera is given, and what to show in the western median and what not to show. The voice of people is collected by him and disseminated by him, and at the end of the day it is his art work not theirs.
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