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2018義大利阿索洛國際藝術影展

台灣策展人發表當代錄像「浮動心境」

2018 Asolo Art Film Festival Launches

Taiwanese Curator Yunnia Yang Presents Video Project

 “The In-Between State of Mind”

     電影的觀看特質與意涵相信對每位觀眾有極為不同的理解，藝術電影跳脫常規以更為廣闊的視野詮釋生命意義，即將於2018 年6月6日至10日所舉辦的第36 屆義大利阿索洛國際藝術影展(Asolo Art Film Festival)以「何不合宜」((In)Appropriate Glances)為主題，強調藝術電影創意特質之一即是廣納百川包容差異，他者在導演觀點已非他者，以同理心看待並讚頌多元多彩的共存生態，譽為全世界最古老的藝術影展， 義大利阿索洛國際藝術電影節自1973年由威尼斯影展成立委員會成員Flavia Paulon 在距離威尼斯不遠的明媚山城阿索洛(Asolo)成立以來，此一競賽交流盛會已累積極為豐富的原創藝術電影典藏，包含藝術電影、藝術家自傳(artist’s biography)、建築、設計與地景(film on architecture, design and territory)、錄像藝術、動畫、音樂短片、電影學校創作、原創配樂等得獎作品，本屆共有來自全球各地300多部藝術影片投件參賽，由影展委員會選出60部作品進入決賽並在影展放映。另一焦點則是影展周邊活動「金磚視野」(BRICS Art)以巴西、俄羅斯、印度、中華與南非等五大地區為影像藝術策展主軸，本屆影展特邀臺灣策展人楊衍畇(Yunnia Yang)策畫東歐/俄羅斯錄像研究專題「浮動心境」(The In-Between State of Mind)，深入觀察前蘇聯自1989年後解體後在政經社會與文化藝術個層面的轉變發展，包含20部來自俄羅斯、立陶宛、波蘭、捷克、羅馬尼亞、保加利亞、斯洛維尼亞、克羅埃斯亞、塞爾維亞、波士尼亞、馬其頓、阿爾巴尼亞等12國錄像藝術創作，本策展專題即是獻給在共產政權終結後經歷遽變並見證到人民如何擁抱新的資本主義生活方式的藝術家，感受到在這二元體制下的另類發展，以視覺、慧黠諷喻與創意想像回應這種後社會主義情境。

 Each audience has his/her own understanding about the visual features and meanings of films. Art films are out of the ordinary frames to bring broader visions interpreting the meanings of life. From June 6 till June 10 of 2018 , 36^th Asolo Art Film Festival (AAFF) sets the theme on (In)Appropriate Glances to emphasize that one of the creative features of art films is to include differences. The Other is not otherness for art film directors anymore . We should treat difference with empathy and appreciate such colorful multi-cultural coexistence.  Famed as the oldest art film festival in the world, Asolo Art Film Festival was founded in Asolo in 1973 by Flavia Paulon, the founding member of Venice Film Festival. Since then, AAFF has accumulated very rich collection of original art films, including the award-winning films in the following category: art film, film on artist’s biography, film on architecture, design and territory, video art, animated film, music video, film school work, original soundtrack, etc. The 36^th edition calls more than 300 entries for competition, and the jury committee selects 60 films among them as the finalists to be screened at AAFF.  Another spotlight on the collateral event “BRICS Art” is the focal theme on the curatorial projects from Brazil, Russia, India, China&Taiwan, and South Africa. AAFF invites Taiwanese curator Yunnia Yang to curate the video project “The In-Between State of Mind” for the Eastern Europe/Russia Video Research. Dr. Yunnia Yang has insight on the transition and evolution of the ex-Soviet countries in the political, social, economic, cultural, and artistic aspects after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. “The In-Between State of Mind” includes 20 films from 12 countries: Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Albania. This curatorial project is dedicated to the artists, who experience the drastic change after the end of the communist regime and witness how people embrace new capitalist lifestyle, perceiving the alternative evolutions out of this binary system and responding to this postsocialist condition with visual lyricism, witty irony and creative imagination. 

   本屆影展以「卡拉瓦喬：靈與血」(Caravaggio: Soul and Body)展開視覺饗宴的序幕，以影展競賽得獎作品頒獎典禮盛大閉幕，將由威尼斯影展主席Alberto Barbara親臨頒獎，國際影展評審團陣容也相當堅強，由威尼斯藝術學院院長Carlo Montanaro擔任評審團主席，邀請法國龐畢度藝術中心影像藝術策展人  Philippe Alain Michaud，俄羅斯莫斯科電影大學（VGIK）教授Natasha Noussinova擔任評委。此外，本屆影展Elenora Duse表演藝術終身成就獎得主義大利知名女演員Piera degli Esposti將出席受獎。注重電影人才的培育與多元電影視野的開拓，影展規劃學校工作坊（School& Atelier）、藝術紀錄片圓桌會議，以及多項影像專題包含「俄羅斯影展」(Russian Film Festival) 、「新視野」(New Vision) 、「全景」(Panorama) 、「性與電影」(Sex and the Cinema) 、「女性觀點」 (Female Regard) 、美國實驗電影導演Shirley Clarke等單元，並特映由Adrian Maben 所導的「時尚攝影大師紐頓：邊緣鏡頭」(Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge)，還有應接不暇的精彩表演如VJ現場表演、廣場投影、交響音樂會與街頭藝術等活動， 吸引來自義大利各地喜好電影與藝術的民眾前往觀賞。

The 36^th AAFF will start with the opening film “Caravaggio: the Soul and the Blood’’ and end with the award-giving ceremony with the presence of Alberto Barbara, the director of Venice Film Festival. The jury members are powerful in films, including the jury president Carlo Montanaro ( director of Venice Fine Art Academy), Philippe Alain Michaud（film art curator of Centre Pompidou in Paris）, and Natasha Noussinova (Professor of Moscow Film University” VGIK”). In addition, the important prize of Elenora Duse goes to the world-famous Italian actress Piera degli Esposti with her own presence to AAFF. AAFF believes in the education of film new talents and the expansion of multiple film visions, organizing the events ‘’School& Atelier’’, roundtable on art documentaries, and video themes  “Russian Film Festival’’ , “New Vision” , “Panorama” , “Sex and the Cinema”, “Female Regard”, “Shirley Clarke”, and special screening of Adrian Maben ‘s “Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge”. Moreover, there are plenty excellent performances, such as VJ live performance, projection at square, orchestra concert, street art and so on, attracting the art-film-loving audience from all over around Italy to Asolo.