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人质情结
——五段家庭录像
人质情结这个词来源于斯德哥尔摩综合症，指的是人质被绑匪劫持一段时间后，会逐渐对劫持者产生一种心理上的依赖感，最后变成与劫持者共命运，把劫持者的前途当成自己的前途，把劫持者的安危视为自己的安危。只是在这里被害者与劫持者是同一个人，是把自己囚禁在自己幻觉里不肯出来的自我绑架。
家庭录像里五个人以各自的方式困在自我营造的幻觉里，企图以一种全新的内在逻辑，把幻觉生长成一种现实，父亲在自己成为亿万富豪的梦里升华自我，母亲在伟大的母爱中维持一种绝对安全，女儿在童年失之交臂的危险里放大恐惧，儿子在以爱之名的反绑架游戏帝国里实现永生，以及《寻人启事》中的那个从未出现的精神病人主动选择和策划的走失。每一个人都在自我绑架的角色里活的合情合理，理直气壮的！
事实证明“现实”这个大编剧总是完胜于我，人的复杂性，早就不再是简单的二元对立，非此即彼的关系，每个人都有可能被自我的角色绑架而不自知，陷入一种自我绑架的人质情结里，就拿艺术家这个身份来说，如果我总是沉迷于艺术中可控制的假装失控里，架空和无视生活中真实的失控，在自我编造的故事里自嗨到不行，不断咀嚼修辞和语法玩视觉游戏，以为自己好像看透了现实，高于生活，就会完全掉入经验之内的艺术幻觉里，其实这又何尝不是一种人质情结呢！
在当下的社会现场，从来都不缺生动的故事，艺术中可控制的假装失控和日常生活中真实的失控是合为一体的，在现实生活中体会艺术中的解构与重构的内在逻辑，才能更内化到作品中去。让我更感兴趣的是：人在自我绑架的幻觉里是如何一步一步引发日常生活中真实的失控。
现在拍片对我而言，更像是一种野外生存类游戏，我必须把自己丢在生活的细枝末节里，去体验和发现目标，不预设其他，这样才能让我更充分准确的理解这异化和荒诞的背后有多少牵一发而动全身的脉络，才不至于被自己无知的幻觉给偷袭。
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《父亲》 单通道高清录像 彩色 30分01秒 2017年
《Father》 Single Channel HD Video,Color, 30′01″/2017
父亲有一个中年危机后不愿服输的发财梦，半辈子老实工作的经历并未给他带来财富的满足，下海后也知道生意难做，处处碰壁，可是全新的虚拟经济资金盘带给了他一丝希望，被传销组织洗脑后参加了一个ROC亿万富豪俱乐部，相信自己可以一夜暴富，看着网上一天一天被滚大的虚拟货币，坐等着成为亿万富豪，相信自己的钱财，富贵是天注定的，只要财运到了，钱自然就会找上门来，父亲最终在自己的赌徒欲望里迷失自我，被残酷的现实重重一击。
After falling into the Mid-aged Crisis, Father refused to accept his defeat, and had a dream of becoming rich. Honestly working for half his life did not bring him satisfaction with his fortune. Starting his business, he met many failures and learned the hardships in the business world. But the brand-new fund game ( a financial deception skill) of the virtual business brought him a new hope. Being brain-washed by a pyramid selling organization, he joined in a so-called ROC Billionaire Club, believing that he might become rich overnight. Watching the value-rocketing of the virtual current, he believed that his fortune is fated. As long as good luck falls upon him, money may roll into his door. Father lost himself in his greed like a gambler, and had a heavy blow from the cruel reality.
《母亲》 单通道高清录像 彩色 14分36秒 2017年
《Mother》 Single Channel HD Video,Color, 14′36″/2017
母亲：“我们老家民俗里有一个传说，只有把自己孩子的胎盘埋在大树底下，小孩才能健康成长，长命百岁，否则就会多灾多难，一生不顺，但是作为母亲，谁愿意拿自己孩子的安全问题做赌注呢？保险起见，宁可信其有不可信其无，即使违背自己的教育背景和医学常识，即使无法验证保障绝对安全，也要试一试，为了孩子我愿意做一切，表达母爱的方式有很多种，这是我的方式。”
Mother: "There is an old legend at my hometown.A mother should bury the placenta of her new born baby beneath a tree so that the child can grow up healthily and enjoy a long life in the future. Otherwise, he will suffer much during his life. Which mother would be willing to take the risk of bringing bad luck to her child ? Just to be on the safe side, I would rather believe it is true, and try to do so, even if it's against my educational background and medical knowledge,and even if it can not be verified and guaranteed. I am willing to do everything for my child. There are many ways to express the love of a mother, and this is my way."
《儿子》 单通道高清录像 彩色 16分32秒 2017年
《 Son 》 Single ChannelHD Video,Color,16′32″/2017
儿子：如果有一天我选择自杀，理由一定很幼稚，因为我不想经历他人（父母）的死亡，我想在游戏世界里永生，在里面我有无数条命可以拯救世界，成为英雄，获得终极的快乐，我可以随心所欲，拿着武器，想打谁打谁，想干什么就干什么，不用对自己的行为负责，真正成为可以主宰自己命运的主人，不像现实那样沉重而无趣，要背负太多伦理道德和以爱之名的绑架，我不开心，因为我的父母太爱我！
Son: If someday I choose suicide, I must be very innocent, for I don’t want to experience the death of others (parents). I want to gain longevity in the game world, in which I have numerous lives to save the world, become the hero and enjoy the culminating pleasure. I may beat anyone and do anything at my will, without taking the responsibility for my behavior. I may become the master of my own life, not like the real life, so heavy and so boring, having to bear so many ethics and the kidnap in the name of love. I am not happy, because my parents love too much!
《女儿》 单通道高清录像 彩色 13分57秒 2017年
《Daughter》 Single Channel HD Video,Color,13′57″/2017
女儿对女性身份的恐惧和不适应来源于童年抓兔子的一段经历，破碎记忆的拼凑和推测，变成一种未知的恐惧，随时都在提醒她那个失之交臂的危险，童年的经历被异化和变形成一种癔症，女性作为易被攻击的弱势群体和易被迫害的食物链低端，如何具备保护自己的能力，如何对自己的身体有绝对的掌控权，如何放下恐惧获得人的自由，她开始学着与自己的女性身体相处与对话。
The fear and maladjustment of Daughter came from her childhood experience of catching a rabbit. The broken memories and reckonings have become an unknown dread, reminding her the danger coming at any time. The childhood experience is alienated and distorted, and has become hysteria. For a female, as the easy prey of the stronger social groups and the bottom of the food-chain in the society, how to strengthen and protect herself, how to gain the absolute control over her own body, and how to win the freedom of a human being without fear? She begins to learn living with and have a dialogue with her female body.
《寻人启事》 单通道高清录像 彩色 15分01秒 2017年
《Missing》 Single Channel HD Video,Color,15′01″/2017
片子最开始源于一张寻人启事，是一对农村父母在寻找他们有轻微精神病的儿子，上面有他的黑白照片，走丢时的穿着特征以及消失的具体位置，这些看似具象的细节拼凑出的各种可能性让我不断的想起那个走丢的夜晚，加上对精神病人视听逻辑的好奇，我用平时记录日常的影像素材，虚构了一个精神病人视角的走失，保留着日常异化里神秘的意外和荒诞的巧合，在自觉性与不可知中寻找走失的答案。
The film begins with a notice for a missing person. A couple from the countryside is looking for their son suffering from slight mental disease. On the notice, there is a photo of the son, the description of his clothing and the position where he is lost. These concrete details may piece together various possibilities and the scene of the night keeps rolling up in my mind. Out of my curiosity to the mental patient, I have made up, with my video records of the everyday life, the fiction of a mental patient losing his way, keeping the mysterious accidents in the daily alienation and various absurd coincidences, and trying to find the answer to the loss in the consciousness and in the unknown.
人质情结
——五段家庭录像
人质情结这个词来源于斯德哥尔摩综合症，指的是人质被绑匪劫持一段时间后，会逐渐对劫持者产生一种心理上的依赖感，最后变成与劫持者共命运，把劫持者的前途当成自己的前途，把劫持者的安危视为自己的安危。只是在这里被害者与劫持者是同一个人，是把自己囚禁在自己幻觉里不肯出来的自我绑架。
家庭录像里五个人以各自的方式困在自我营造的幻觉里，企图以一种全新的内在逻辑，把幻觉生长成一种现实，父亲在自己成为亿万富豪的梦里升华自我，母亲在伟大的母爱中维持一种绝对安全，女儿在童年失之交臂的危险里放大恐惧，儿子在以爱之名的反绑架游戏帝国里实现永生，以及《寻人启事》中的那个从未出现的精神病人主动选择和策划的走失。每一个人都在自我绑架的角色里活的合情合理，理直气壮的！
事实证明“现实”这个大编剧总是完胜于我，人的复杂性，早就不再是简单的二元对立，非此即彼的关系，每个人都有可能被自我的角色绑架而不自知，陷入一种自我绑架的人质情结里，就拿艺术家这个身份来说，如果我总是沉迷于艺术中可控制的假装失控里，架空和无视生活中真实的失控，在自我编造的故事里自嗨到不行，不断咀嚼修辞和语法玩视觉游戏，以为自己好像看透了现实，高于生活，就会完全掉入经验之内的艺术幻觉里，其实这又何尝不是一种人质情结呢！
在当下的社会现场，从来都不缺生动的故事，艺术中可控制的假装失控和日常生活中真实的失控是合为一体的，在现实生活中体会艺术中的解构与重构的内在逻辑，才能更内化到作品中去。让我更感兴趣的是：人在自我绑架的幻觉里是如何一步一步引发日常生活中真实的失控。
现在拍片对我而言，更像是一种野外生存类游戏，我必须把自己丢在生活的细枝末节里，去体验和发现目标，不预设其他，这样才能让我更充分准确的理解这异化和荒诞的背后有多少牵一发而动全身的脉络，才不至于被自己无知的幻觉给偷袭。
徐琳瑜
《父亲》 单通道高清录像 彩色 30分01秒 2017年
《Father》 Single Channel HD Video,Color, 30′01″/2017
父亲有一个中年危机后不愿服输的发财梦，半辈子老实工作的经历并未给他带来财富的满足，下海后也知道生意难做，处处碰壁，可是全新的虚拟经济资金盘带给了他一丝希望，被传销组织洗脑后参加了一个ROC亿万富豪俱乐部，相信自己可以一夜暴富，看着网上一天一天被滚大的虚拟货币，坐等着成为亿万富豪，相信自己的钱财，富贵是天注定的，只要财运到了，钱自然就会找上门来，父亲最终在自己的赌徒欲望里迷失自我，被残酷的现实重重一击。
After falling into the Mid-aged Crisis, Father refused to accept his defeat, and had a dream of becoming rich. Honestly working for half his life did not bring him satisfaction with his fortune. Starting his business, he met many failures and learned the hardships in the business world. But the brand-new fund game ( a financial deception skill) of the virtual business brought him a new hope. Being brain-washed by a pyramid selling organization, he joined in a so-called ROC Billionaire Club, believing that he might become rich overnight. Watching the value-rocketing of the virtual current, he believed that his fortune is fated. As long as good luck falls upon him, money may roll into his door. Father lost himself in his greed like a gambler, and had a heavy blow from the cruel reality.
《母亲》 单通道高清录像 彩色 14分36秒 2017年
《Mother》 Single Channel HD Video,Color, 14′36″/2017
母亲：“我们老家民俗里有一个传说，只有把自己孩子的胎盘埋在大树底下，小孩才能健康成长，长命百岁，否则就会多灾多难，一生不顺，但是作为母亲，谁愿意拿自己孩子的安全问题做赌注呢？保险起见，宁可信其有不可信其无，即使违背自己的教育背景和医学常识，即使无法验证保障绝对安全，也要试一试，为了孩子我愿意做一切，表达母爱的方式有很多种，这是我的方式。”
Mother: "There is an old legend at my hometown.A mother should bury the placenta of her new born baby beneath a tree so that the child can grow up healthily and enjoy a long life in the future. Otherwise, he will suffer much during his life. Which mother would be willing to take the risk of bringing bad luck to her child ? Just to be on the safe side, I would rather believe it is true, and try to do so, even if it's against my educational background and medical knowledge,and even if it can not be verified and guaranteed. I am willing to do everything for my child. There are many ways to express the love of a mother, and this is my way."
《儿子》 单通道高清录像 彩色 16分32秒 2017年
《 Son 》 Single ChannelHD Video,Color,16′32″/2017
儿子：如果有一天我选择自杀，理由一定很幼稚，因为我不想经历他人（父母）的死亡，我想在游戏世界里永生，在里面我有无数条命可以拯救世界，成为英雄，获得终极的快乐，我可以随心所欲，拿着武器，想打谁打谁，想干什么就干什么，不用对自己的行为负责，真正成为可以主宰自己命运的主人，不像现实那样沉重而无趣，要背负太多伦理道德和以爱之名的绑架，我不开心，因为我的父母太爱我！
Son: If someday I choose suicide, I must be very innocent, for I don’t want to experience the death of others (parents). I want to gain longevity in the game world, in which I have numerous lives to save the world, become the hero and enjoy the culminating pleasure. I may beat anyone and do anything at my will, without taking the responsibility for my behavior. I may become the master of my own life, not like the real life, so heavy and so boring, having to bear so many ethics and the kidnap in the name of love. I am not happy, because my parents love too much!
《女儿》 单通道高清录像 彩色 13分57秒 2017年
《Daughter》 Single Channel HD Video,Color,13′57″/2017
女儿对女性身份的恐惧和不适应来源于童年抓兔子的一段经历，破碎记忆的拼凑和推测，变成一种未知的恐惧，随时都在提醒她那个失之交臂的危险，童年的经历被异化和变形成一种癔症，女性作为易被攻击的弱势群体和易被迫害的食物链低端，如何具备保护自己的能力，如何对自己的身体有绝对的掌控权，如何放下恐惧获得人的自由，她开始学着与自己的女性身体相处与对话。
The fear and maladjustment of Daughter came from her childhood experience of catching a rabbit. The broken memories and reckonings have become an unknown dread, reminding her the danger coming at any time. The childhood experience is alienated and distorted, and has become hysteria. For a female, as the easy prey of the stronger social groups and the bottom of the food-chain in the society, how to strengthen and protect herself, how to gain the absolute control over her own body, and how to win the freedom of a human being without fear? She begins to learn living with and have a dialogue with her female body.
《寻人启事》 单通道高清录像 彩色 15分01秒 2017年
《Missing》 Single Channel HD Video,Color,15′01″/2017
片子最开始源于一张寻人启事，是一对农村父母在寻找他们有轻微精神病的儿子，上面有他的黑白照片，走丢时的穿着特征以及消失的具体位置，这些看似具象的细节拼凑出的各种可能性让我不断的想起那个走丢的夜晚，加上对精神病人视听逻辑的好奇，我用平时记录日常的影像素材，虚构了一个精神病人视角的走失，保留着日常异化里神秘的意外和荒诞的巧合，在自觉性与不可知中寻找走失的答案。
The film begins with a notice for a missing person. A couple from the countryside is looking for their son suffering from slight mental disease. On the notice, there is a photo of the son, the description of his clothing and the position where he is lost. These concrete details may piece together various possibilities and the scene of the night keeps rolling up in my mind. Out of my curiosity to the mental patient, I have made up, with my video records of the everyday life, the fiction of a mental patient losing his way, keeping the mysterious accidents in the daily alienation and various absurd coincidences, and trying to find the answer to the loss in the consciousness and in the unknown.
