If You Were in My Movies (2018 — )
(Or A Personal Approach to Genres)
如果你在我的電影裡
在我重拾攝影、砍掉重練的時期，曾做過不少風格探索與練習，甚至也從電影畫面尋求構圖靈感。那些不成氣候的影像片段，是否成為個人視覺修辭的基底，其實還活得不夠久，我不知道。但我知道的是，那些練習都是身處影像世界，視覺慣例一再展演、內化、自動回放的身體記憶。
每當行經一個大型連結車頻繁經過的路口，轉彎時我都問自己：「我會見到自己人生的跑馬燈嗎？大車從身旁轟隆而過的時候，我看到過往片段咻咻咻的閃回了嗎？」
沒有。我猜我還可以再活一段時間。
或許在那最終時刻到來時，我會看到一道白光，逐漸瀰漫視野，身體輪廓漸漸模糊，溶入屏幕，繼而淡出，最後全暗。
通常都是這樣演的。
於是我決定回頭檢視那些制約且留在身上的影像語言框架。我回收利用自己再度練拍時的各類照片，結合自撰或挪用的文字，作為個人對於視覺慣例、類型表現、意義產出或懸置的思索與逆輸出。
如果你在我的電影裡，那麼你會是？
If You Were in My Movies is an ongoing project that I reconsider how movies influence my approaches to photography. In my earlier stage of taking photographs, movie stills, rather than masterpieces of renowned photographers, were my main references. A still image frame is a small piece of visual language, in which conventions take effect on its meaning. I seemed to shoot a single movie frame as I pushed the shutter button of my camera. It is intriguing as I look back on the experience, and I can’t help wondering how those conventions act on me. I reused my earlier photo works to create these screenshot-like images, and as they are edited and subtitled they become a reassessment of my personal approach to genres, cinematically and photographically, and what inspired me to take and make photos. What would you be -- the light, the shadow, the color, the subtitle or simply the presence of the absent narrator -- if you were in my movies?