草木戰役,EXOTIC EXOTICISM


▲EXOTIC EXOTICISM: PLANTS WARS/ 20070917 synopsis

 How possible is it to love trees? Some plants are thought to be "exotic" species, others "native", and others exclusively "endemic". Yet this creative documentary film, composed of 15 shorts, proposed an alternative view to live with plants and nature:

No "exotic" species for plants on earth. It's we human beings that are the *very* exotic species to plants.

 What human race does has changed the earth's evolution a lot. This film intends to deals with no "rare" nor "endangered" species of plants, which might not be reached in our common everyday lives. In fact, it's everyday-life plants that do count.

 Usually people like to talk about plany that are far away, especially those species in other foreign and "exotic" countries. Though plants might be classified as exotic/native/endimec species, everyday-life plants are too close to know (their names).

 In what way do we love plants, trees and nature? For we human beings, is it possible to "be" the plants in themselves to know how they really feel on earth?

 Actually, we might think about plants in an imaginary way, with kind of exoticism, with kind of exotic exoticism.

▲草木戰役

世界的草木沒有外來種。對草木來說,我們才是外來種。

《草木戰役》的拍攝主題是:「外來種」植物、「原生種」植物、「特有種」植物、「外來 植物」跟「原生植物」之間的戰役、還有人們對這些戰役的一些「想像」。故事裡的人們, 有人爬樹、有人唱歌、有人懷念過世的伴侶、有人逐花草而居、有人跟葉子講話、有人種樹 、有人砍樹、有人把花煮來吃、有人擔心是不是最後一次開花、有人找不到可以認同的族群 身份。

這一些戰役,有的是看得見的,卻有更多是看不見的。
這一些想像,有的像好奇,有的像科學,有的像記憶,有的像幼稚,有的像私密,有的像願 望。

描述的草木植物,全都不是最稀罕的,卻都是我們以為最平常的。
它們不在遙遠的海角天涯,就在我們日常生活的眼前。
我們叫不出他們的名字,不是因為他們太陌生,是因為他們太熟悉。
不是因為他們太遠,是因為他們太近。

對草木來說,我們是一個外來種。對人們來說,草木也是一個外來種。
人們像是一個本國,草木像是一個外國。
能夠談的,不是草木,是人們跟草木之間的關係。
可以描述的,不是外國草木的真正模樣,是人們對外國草木的想像。
不是外國的本身,是人們對外國的「外國情調(exoticism)」。

對於草木外國的外國情調,在地觀點就是國際觀點:
工商無祖國。草木無祖國。

EXOTIC EXOTICISM: PLANTS WARS


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■《草木戰役 | EXOTIC EXOTICISM》, 2007∣出品.製作:印花印象∣MIMEO FILMS
草木顧問:潘富俊∣監製:馮賢賢∣製片人:劉建偉∣總策畫:本騷伊明∣共同策畫:薛常 慧.黃思嘉 ∣共同撰文:瞿筱葳 ∣導演.攝影指導:劉吉雄∣戲劇主演:吳雨致.陳羽榛∣旁白演出:楊文文.林凱羚∣音 樂:fish.the.黃一晉.929(吳志寧).風建漢 ∣協力製作:國家電影資料館 ∣協力出品:財團法人公共電視廣電事業基金會《紀錄觀點》∣ EXOTIC EXOTICISM, 2007 | a MIMEO FILMS production presented by MIMEO FILMS & Public Television Service Foundation (Taipei), in association with Chinese Taipei Film Archive | produced by Awei Liu & directed by Asio Liu | written by Besau Iming | www.mimeofilms.com

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