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給阿媽的一封信 A letter to A’ma

陳慧齡 CHEN Hui-Ling 2021 台灣 彩色 97分鐘 DCP
新生代關照全球族群移動效應之作,例如橫跨台法兩地執導拍攝。一位美術老師回到故鄉悼念去世祖母,除了面對模糊的家族記憶,她也意識到國族歷史的斷裂問題:台灣,一座歷經四百年殖民以及近半世紀獨裁的島嶼。透過她給學生們的美術作業,一幅幅肖像畫逐漸浮現,關於台灣的集體記憶。一個被世界遺忘自己也健忘的島嶼,如何在後殖民時代,透過藝術行動重建認同?

An art teacher returns to her childhood home to mourn the passing of her grandmother.As she pieces together the fragmented memories of her youth she finds herself coming face-to-face with the problematic issue of her country’s fractured history. An island on the edge of Asia, Taiwan has experienced four hundred years of colonization followed by a recent half century of dictatorship. Yet today it is becoming the front of a potential war between world powers.Through an artistic duty that this teacher gives to students, a performance art process that has lasted for more than 10 years, a representational portrait of the island’s collective memory begins to emerge; and in so doing, these young artists have initiated a process by which Taiwan, an island forgotten by the world and in the midst of forgetting itself, can now remember itself and construct a new postcolonial identity through art.

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陳慧齡 CHEN Hui-Ling

臺灣師大美術研究所畢業,曾任中學教師,後來到法國攻讀電影後,拍攝紀錄片《給阿媽的一封信》,透過「島嶼的集體記憶教學計畫」引導各校學生以圖畫描繪家族記憶,共同尋找島嶼記憶和多元文化的認同。此片獲2021臺灣國際女性影展首獎、第六屆SMR13國際獨立電影影展最佳紀錄片獎、最佳攝影獎、最佳原創電影配樂,並入圍第58屆金馬獎最佳紀錄片。 Hui-Ling CHEN was a plastic art teacher in high school and left her post to study cinema in France. After studying cinema, she returned to Taiwan to found the educational project: "The collective memory of the island", while filming the documentary A Letter to A’ma. She has cooperated with many schools across the country to guide young people to express their own story artistically. The film testifies to the achievements over ten years of the project. In 2018, she won an award from the Ministry of Education for her contribution to artistic education for the younger generation.

陳慧齡 CHEN Hui-Ling

2021 給阿媽的一封信 A Letter to A'ma