Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Constantly influenced by geopolitics, Francis Alÿs makes cities in Mexico, Argentina and the rest of Latin America as his main sources of inspiration for art creation, and uses poetic and allegorical methods to address political and social realities. He shares many similarities with two masters in the realm of film. The Argentine filmmaker Fernando Ezequiel Solanas, who developed the theory of the Third Cinema, has been committed to promoting the culture and development of the third world countries: even the most poetic scenarios in his films contain political satire, while the Chilean filmmaker Alexandre Jodorowsky has made roads an element highly repeated or a theme always discussed in his films. A Story of Deception, a work exhibited in “Francis Alÿs: La dépense”,also centers around a highway, halved by a dotted white line, extending towards a mirage glimmering on the horizon. In this talk, Lu Zhiyu, a well-known film critic, will share his ideas on two movies which are deeply rooted in the culture of their filmmakers’ homeland: El Viaje by Fernando Ezequiel Solanas and Poesía sin fin by Alexandre Jodorowsky.

In Fernando Ezequiel Solanas’s movie, El Viaje, which is one of the most beautiful road movies for me without any doubt, the journey of the teenage boy Martin in search of his father shows not only the Latin American solitude as depicted in works of Francia Márquez, but the unique spirits rooted in the magical land of Latin America. The art ambition of the director started in Argentina and then spread across the whole South America. Through his poetic lens, even the fate statement sending the strongest political message is in the color of freedom, like the feelings of striding on La nube (Clouds) and the journey in El Viaje. Everything starts and ends at will.--- Lu Zhiyu

弗朗西斯·埃利斯的作品一直贯穿着地缘政治的影响，墨西哥、阿根廷等拉美地区的城市是他创作的主要线索之一，他运用诗意、讽喻的方式来诠释政治和社会现实。而在电影领域，“第三电影”流派开创者阿根廷导演费尔南多·索拉纳斯，一直以来为第三世界国家的文化和生存而努力：他的影片即使在最诗意的时候也不放弃对时事政治的嘲讽；智利导演亚历山大·佐杜洛夫斯基的电影中一直延续着“公路”的特征，或者说追寻的议题；而弗朗西斯·埃利斯本次展出的作品《一个欺骗的故事，巴塔哥尼亚》中，也出现了由一条点缀的白线均分开的公路，镜头似乎一直朝着眼前的海市蜃楼前进。本次活动我们很荣幸地邀请到著名影评人陆支羽和我们一起分享两位导演深植于自身文化土壤所创作出的两部电影：索拉纳斯的《旅行》与亚历山大·佐杜洛夫斯基的《诗无尽头》。

“在我心目中，费尔南多•索拉纳斯的《旅行》无疑是影史上最美的公路电影之一。影片中，大男孩马丁的那场寻父之旅，给我们带来的不仅仅是马尔克斯笔下的“拉丁美洲的孤独”，更多的是对拉美这片魔幻疆土的精神根源的追溯。作为导演的索拉纳斯，他的艺术野心破壳于阿根廷，蔓延于南美大陆；即便最具政治意图的命运宣告，在他诗意的镜头下，都有着如同踩着《云》前行的自由的颜色，正如《旅行》中的那场寻父之旅，尽兴而至，尽兴而返。”——陆支羽