十面天

Ten Skies


　　Directed by James Benning.


　　US 2004, 16mm, color, 109 min.


　　Filmed around Val Verde, California, this series of skyscapes gracefully visualizes human civilization's interaction with, and impact on, the landscape. The skies and cloud formations chosen by Benning are affected by pollution from an industrial factory, jet trails, and smoke from an accidental wildfire, all clearly legible upon the firmament. And yet, despite these ominous environmental undercurrents, Benning conceived Ten Skies as an anti-war film, describing his work to be "about the antithesis of war, [about] the kind of beauty we're destroying." This intention is affirmed in the reflective serenity of his images; the varying tones, textures and colors of the atmosphere, and the shifting transformations of billowing clouds that produce astonishing perceptual revelations about scale, ephemerality, and the cinematic frame.


　　

当视角仅聚焦于16mm镜头下云朵的流动时，我们会获得更多对于时间流淌，天空云朵自然质感的纯粹感受。阳光照在云朵细节处的色彩，云轻柔的质感，透光与不透光的差异在被纷纷放大，呈现着自然界真实的慢速变化。荧幕外混杂的是的枪声，爆炸声，狗吠声，这些声音没有任何缘由，不禁让人思考他们是枪声还是烟花，是否军队在进攻某个领地吗，还是在屠杀，为什么有密集的狗的声音，是狗在保护他的主人吗。我们正在通过谁的眼睛去看这片云？战场是在云层下还是在云层后方？几千年来人类文明的发展对于地球而言，是否也就像一团流动的云一样转瞬即逝？影片提供了帮助我们将自然，景观，乡野环境视为场所的独特视角，刺激着我们思考人类世界对于自然的影响和关系，也丰富着我们关于“看云”这一日常活动和常规景色的想象体验。

4- 不太好。纯然无序的运动似乎永不重复，可看上去也差不多。

有几片云很瑰丽。但我个人认为 作为纪录电影，实验意义和观赏意义都不大

其实和Shklovsky的陌生化一个道理，当我们日常生活已经对自然景观熟视无睹不再驻足的时候，用电影媒介重新让我们去看，一个unlearn的过程，并没有那么了不起什么的。不过这云拍得挺不错。